You’re right that they didn’t do enough to attract users though.
I want to point out how trivial it would be for Eliezer to get way more users/readers on Arbital than he has gotten, just by sharing the best essays on Arbital once a month on facebook. He would’ve gotten like one or two orders of magnitude more readers. I’m confused you think Eliezer was missing this by accident, rather than fully aware of what his options are and then deciding to hold off on bringing users to his as-yet-unfinished product.
At the time I thought it was an under-construction CFAI kind of thing and he was avoiding too much attention from randoms, but your explanation makes sense too.
I want to point out how trivial it would be for Eliezer to get way more users/readers on Arbital than he has gotten, just by sharing the best essays on Arbital once a month on facebook. He would’ve gotten like one or two orders of magnitude more readers. I’m confused you think Eliezer was missing this by accident, rather than fully aware of what his options are and then deciding to hold off on bringing users to his as-yet-unfinished product.
At the time I thought it was an under-construction CFAI kind of thing and he was avoiding too much attention from randoms, but your explanation makes sense too.