Back when I had a username of my own I interacted in this way. A huge difference between then and now: Eliezer was not only posting new “Sequences” but actively discussing their content. And a few others were making sequence-like posts and continuing discussion similarly.
Now, the sequences are a fixed set of documents that still serve as interesting, eye-catching and thought provoking entry point. But what is absent is constructive and productive discussion around them. Sure, there have been attempts to reread and discuss, and occasionally someone will create a top-level post to try and discuss ideas from one or another of the Sequence posts—but these attract minimal and low quality discussion here.
From my outside perspective it seems like a key part is that the “content providers” also engage beyond the first post. I hope this resumes if LW 2.0 continues to have an essay+discussion format.
Back when I had a username of my own I interacted in this way.
A huge difference between then and now: Eliezer was not only posting new “Sequences” but actively discussing their content. And a few others were making sequence-like posts and continuing discussion similarly.
Now, the sequences are a fixed set of documents that still serve as interesting, eye-catching and thought provoking entry point. But what is absent is constructive and productive discussion around them. Sure, there have been attempts to reread and discuss, and occasionally someone will create a top-level post to try and discuss ideas from one or another of the Sequence posts—but these attract minimal and low quality discussion here.
From my outside perspective it seems like a key part is that the “content providers” also engage beyond the first post.
I hope this resumes if LW 2.0 continues to have an essay+discussion format.