I think this is a great idea. I’ve been reading through the sequences and, while I would like to comment, it seems silly to participate in a conversation that occurred two years ago. So the point would be just to have a “fresh” conversation about an old post. I think this is a good idea in general; for some reason the internet likes to pretend that anything written about more than a week ago doesn’t exist or isn’t relevant.
For what it’s worth, when I discovered the site last year I started working through the Overcoming Bias archives linearly, and I went ahead and commented on those posts when I felt moved to.
Occasionally people would respond; more often they wouldn’t. Which is true for my comments on current posts, as well. And others’. So I’m not sure there’s too much difference.
All of which is to say that I endorse overcoming the sense that commenting on old posts is too silly to do.
I think this is a great idea. I’ve been reading through the sequences and, while I would like to comment, it seems silly to participate in a conversation that occurred two years ago. So the point would be just to have a “fresh” conversation about an old post. I think this is a good idea in general; for some reason the internet likes to pretend that anything written about more than a week ago doesn’t exist or isn’t relevant.
For what it’s worth, when I discovered the site last year I started working through the Overcoming Bias archives linearly, and I went ahead and commented on those posts when I felt moved to.
Occasionally people would respond; more often they wouldn’t. Which is true for my comments on current posts, as well. And others’. So I’m not sure there’s too much difference.
All of which is to say that I endorse overcoming the sense that commenting on old posts is too silly to do.