why was LW handed over to an organization controlled by a single person
The community voted on it back in the day. MIRI wanted to make LessWrong a read-only archive. I said I would try to revive it. At the end of the period high-karma users voted whether to continue under my management, or archive the site. The former happened!
Ah thanks, I remember a bit more now. Looking back at the voting announcement posted by Vaniver, it didn’t mention how important your role would be on LW 2.0:
In case you’re just tuning in now, some basic details: I’ve been posting on LW for a long time, and about two years ago thought I was the person who cared most about making sure LW stayed alive, so decided to put effort into making sure that happened. But while I have some skills as a writer and a programmer, I’m not a webdev and not great at project management, and so things have been rather slow. My current role is mostly in being something like the ‘senior rationalist’ on the team, and supporting the team with my models of what should happen and why. The actual work is being done by a combination of Oliver Habryka, Raymond Arnold, and Ben Pace, and their contributions are why we finally have a site that’s ready to come out of beta.
And I didn’t pay much attention to the LW 2.0 / Lightcone organizational structure in the following years, so it came as kind of a surprise when you said “This is (approximately) my forum.”
The community voted on it back in the day. MIRI wanted to make LessWrong a read-only archive. I said I would try to revive it. At the end of the period high-karma users voted whether to continue under my management, or archive the site. The former happened!
(Also, we do have a 3 person board)
Ah thanks, I remember a bit more now. Looking back at the voting announcement posted by Vaniver, it didn’t mention how important your role would be on LW 2.0:
And I didn’t pay much attention to the LW 2.0 / Lightcone organizational structure in the following years, so it came as kind of a surprise when you said “This is (approximately) my forum.”