I have all sorts of ideas which share the property “I was consider posting this to an online forum, (in some cases, Less Wrong, in other cases not) but stopped because I thought it was insufficiently well thought out/formatted/finished to share and I did not have enough time to continue writing it up, so I saved it to Google Docs for later review.”
However, I almost never actually go back and look at them, and by now, a significant number of them are probably pointless, out of date, or something I no longer believe.
For instance, here is a brief summary of some of the first few (all at least 2 years old) by topic:
1: Lyrics to some kind of potential 2008 U.S. presidential campaign rap, which appears to have been primarily inspired by trying to use words that rhyme with “ain”
2: A “Bootstraps Chart” which describes various economic class levels and references how people might act at each level.
3: The beginning of a story about a woman being arrested for having super powers.
4: A comparison of deaths in 9/11 to deaths by traffic accidents.
Are any of these the kind of thing you might be looking for?
Edit: Apparently I also have something which I made in May 2010, where I started an attempt to describe the Scientific method to a religious person on the Something Awful Forums in “Cavemanese.” That might be a good partly baked Less Wrong topic, since it seems more topical. (It’s probably at least partially wrong, but it’s way more topical than a 2008 Campaign rap.)
I thought this would be a thread for people to post partly baked ideas. So, how about doing that?
I have all sorts of ideas which share the property “I was consider posting this to an online forum, (in some cases, Less Wrong, in other cases not) but stopped because I thought it was insufficiently well thought out/formatted/finished to share and I did not have enough time to continue writing it up, so I saved it to Google Docs for later review.”
However, I almost never actually go back and look at them, and by now, a significant number of them are probably pointless, out of date, or something I no longer believe. For instance, here is a brief summary of some of the first few (all at least 2 years old) by topic:
1: Lyrics to some kind of potential 2008 U.S. presidential campaign rap, which appears to have been primarily inspired by trying to use words that rhyme with “ain”
2: A “Bootstraps Chart” which describes various economic class levels and references how people might act at each level.
3: The beginning of a story about a woman being arrested for having super powers.
4: A comparison of deaths in 9/11 to deaths by traffic accidents.
Are any of these the kind of thing you might be looking for?
Edit: Apparently I also have something which I made in May 2010, where I started an attempt to describe the Scientific method to a religious person on the Something Awful Forums in “Cavemanese.” That might be a good partly baked Less Wrong topic, since it seems more topical. (It’s probably at least partially wrong, but it’s way more topical than a 2008 Campaign rap.)