Hmm. Well, I figure a community tends to be more fun when people are actively responding to things. I know I’d show up here more often if I knew that my ideas would get bounced off of by others.
At the same time, I’d been writing my own thoughts up on rationality, and I’d gotten to a point where I thought these ideas might be interesting to the LW audience.
Then the Anna post on LW becoming a central locus showed up, and i thought, “hey, this is cool, things are lining up well.” (Which also triggered more thoughts about the community)
So basically a combination of the above tree things.
Hmm. Well, I figure a community tends to be more fun when people are actively responding to things. I know I’d show up here more often if I knew that my ideas would get bounced off of by others.
At the same time, I’d been writing my own thoughts up on rationality, and I’d gotten to a point where I thought these ideas might be interesting to the LW audience.
Then the Anna post on LW becoming a central locus showed up, and i thought, “hey, this is cool, things are lining up well.” (Which also triggered more thoughts about the community)
So basically a combination of the above tree things.