I just want to mention an immediate thought that I had as soon as I read this. Note that I don’t actually endorse this thought, but I still think there is something to it.
First, I was surprised that LessWrong doesn’t currently have a Wikipedia article. Then I immediately thought, “How cool is it that I’m part of this large subculture of smart people that is so out of the mainstream that it doesn’t even have a Wikipedia article! We should never get enough media coverage to pass the notability criteria.”
What I gleaned from this intuition is that some of the appeal of LW is that it is non-mainstream.
This would be interesting to see. I sense LW’s content has already become very deluded over time—presumably as a result of it’s growing mainstream-ish popularity.
With more coverage, would LW become more like, say, reddit?
I just want to mention an immediate thought that I had as soon as I read this. Note that I don’t actually endorse this thought, but I still think there is something to it.
First, I was surprised that LessWrong doesn’t currently have a Wikipedia article. Then I immediately thought, “How cool is it that I’m part of this large subculture of smart people that is so out of the mainstream that it doesn’t even have a Wikipedia article! We should never get enough media coverage to pass the notability criteria.”
What I gleaned from this intuition is that some of the appeal of LW is that it is non-mainstream.
This would be interesting to see. I sense LW’s content has already become very deluded over time—presumably as a result of it’s growing mainstream-ish popularity.
With more coverage, would LW become more like, say, reddit?
Do you mean diluted?
Ha. Yep.
It is said: “Correlation does not imply causation.”