Putting everything into a giant book is not a reasonable form of organizing institutional knowledge. (At least not beyond a certain point.)
In general, I feel like the sequences approach strangled the intellectual growth of LW 1.0 by sending people the message that unless their content is in the top 0.1% of content they should just go home. So that’s what people did.
If you want a thriving discussion you’re going to need to have a space for discussing things with reasonable but not incredible quality standards. You do not want to give users the message that for their discussion to be worthwhile it must ultimately be worthy of inclusion into a canon. Trying to build a canon too early just strangles everything. You’re overemphasizing it because it’s what EY did when you really should if anything underemphasize it.
p.s. Overemphasizing the construction of a canon also has negative PR effects, because it gives the impression of a fanatic group.
Putting everything into a giant book is not a reasonable form of organizing institutional knowledge. (At least not beyond a certain point.)
In general, I feel like the sequences approach strangled the intellectual growth of LW 1.0 by sending people the message that unless their content is in the top 0.1% of content they should just go home. So that’s what people did.
If you want a thriving discussion you’re going to need to have a space for discussing things with reasonable but not incredible quality standards. You do not want to give users the message that for their discussion to be worthwhile it must ultimately be worthy of inclusion into a canon. Trying to build a canon too early just strangles everything. You’re overemphasizing it because it’s what EY did when you really should if anything underemphasize it.
p.s. Overemphasizing the construction of a canon also has negative PR effects, because it gives the impression of a fanatic group.