Joining the chorus of apprecation—it sounds like writing this would have been both intellectually and emotionally exhausting (or, at least, it would have been if I had written it)
My question for you is, of course, which features from Arbital seem relatively easy and worthwhile to port over to LW2.0? I’m still not sure I grok the entirety of the vision and how everything fit together, but it seemed like at least some of the features would be fairly easy to implement without relying on the entire vision to be useful.
I guess also curious, for curiosity’s sake, in “what features wouldn’t work, because they required too much on the tangled web of interconnected pieces?”
Two features I miss the most are greenlinks (hover over a link to see summary) and claims (vote with probability / agreement).
But I think this question should be answered by LW community needs.
Well, trying to build a system that will dynamically link pages together to form a sequence based on requisites would be hard. But I think basically all other features are very modular.
I also really want both of these, and have needed to restrain myself from just building them, since I do think for now we should focus on the core experience of the website (and you know, finally actually move to LessWrong.com and properly import all the old content and stuff). But I definitely want to have both of them in the long run.
If you want to build them so badly that you feel like you need to restrain yourself from doing so, I’m sure you’d receive a nice morale boost from just building them now. And morale matters. I’m not sure if the benefit of morale outweighs the benefits of priority, just offering it as something to consider if you haven’t already.
+1, I’m increasingly convinced that the best strategy for productivity is to juggle 3-5 projects and just work on whichever seems most appealing at any given time. See structured procrastination. Pro tip: If you start having ideas related to an important topic like AI safety, that’s a blank check to procrastinate on anything else.
Claims I’m not so sure about. People do, and want to, upvote for different reasons. Stating agreement is surely one of them, and claims sounds like a good way to address that need. But what about other needs, like stating appreciation or inspiration? Do we have different types of voting for the different use cases? Does that become feature overkill? I don’t mean to imply any answers to these questions, just that I personally don’t feel a sense of excitement and confidence about that feature.
Joining the chorus of apprecation—it sounds like writing this would have been both intellectually and emotionally exhausting (or, at least, it would have been if I had written it)
My question for you is, of course, which features from Arbital seem relatively easy and worthwhile to port over to LW2.0? I’m still not sure I grok the entirety of the vision and how everything fit together, but it seemed like at least some of the features would be fairly easy to implement without relying on the entire vision to be useful.
I guess also curious, for curiosity’s sake, in “what features wouldn’t work, because they required too much on the tangled web of interconnected pieces?”
Two features I miss the most are greenlinks (hover over a link to see summary) and claims (vote with probability / agreement).
But I think this question should be answered by LW community needs.
Well, trying to build a system that will dynamically link pages together to form a sequence based on requisites would be hard. But I think basically all other features are very modular.
I also really want both of these, and have needed to restrain myself from just building them, since I do think for now we should focus on the core experience of the website (and you know, finally actually move to LessWrong.com and properly import all the old content and stuff). But I definitely want to have both of them in the long run.
If you want to build them so badly that you feel like you need to restrain yourself from doing so, I’m sure you’d receive a nice morale boost from just building them now. And morale matters. I’m not sure if the benefit of morale outweighs the benefits of priority, just offering it as something to consider if you haven’t already.
+1, I’m increasingly convinced that the best strategy for productivity is to juggle 3-5 projects and just work on whichever seems most appealing at any given time. See structured procrastination. Pro tip: If you start having ideas related to an important topic like AI safety, that’s a blank check to procrastinate on anything else.
Huge “yesssss” to greenlinks.
Claims I’m not so sure about. People do, and want to, upvote for different reasons. Stating agreement is surely one of them, and claims sounds like a good way to address that need. But what about other needs, like stating appreciation or inspiration? Do we have different types of voting for the different use cases? Does that become feature overkill? I don’t mean to imply any answers to these questions, just that I personally don’t feel a sense of excitement and confidence about that feature.
My gut intuitions say that this is overkill, but on the other hand I use Facebook reactions all the time and get useful information out of them.