A case for taking down the site as soon as you’re able to (I don’t necessarily endorse this action, since some people care a lot about LW Petrov Day rituals for reasons I don’t understand):
Two years ago, Ben Pace said “it’s plausible that we want to try very big stakes” sometime. This would be bad in expectation—potentially very bad—so we should decrease the probability that it occurs, and more Petrov Day failures (and more clear failures, like taking down the site sooner) would decrease the probability that it occurs.
(Nuking the site as soon as possible makes failure stronger; nuking the site later—e.g., just before Petrov Day ends—has slightly less benefit but also less cost in frontpage-being-down and slightly less cost in people-being-sad-we-nuked-the-site.)
Any other nonobvious consequences of nuking the site, positive or negative?
A case for taking down the site as soon as you’re able to (I don’t necessarily endorse this action, since some people care a lot about LW Petrov Day rituals for reasons I don’t understand):
Two years ago, Ben Pace said “it’s plausible that we want to try very big stakes” sometime. This would be bad in expectation—potentially very bad—so we should decrease the probability that it occurs, and more Petrov Day failures (and more clear failures, like taking down the site sooner) would decrease the probability that it occurs.
(Nuking the site as soon as possible makes failure stronger; nuking the site later—e.g., just before Petrov Day ends—has slightly less benefit but also less cost in frontpage-being-down and slightly less cost in people-being-sad-we-nuked-the-site.)
Any other nonobvious consequences of nuking the site, positive or negative?