1) Main/Eliezer-cluster: Epistemic rationality, FAI, cryonics, futurism, transhumanism, etc.
2) Instrumental & Skills: E.g. Be Specific, The Five-second Level, Fermi Estimates, How to Measure Anything, nootropics, Effective Altruism, how to dress, RATIONALIST TOOTHBRUSHING
3) ITL (In Tangible Life): Meetups, events of interest to the community, job openings, house/apartment openings/organisation
Keep Promoted, and have it draw from every subreddit.
The only thing I recall that might not obviously fit into one of these especially is HPMoR. I’m not bothered by HPMoR frenzies so don’t really mind, but I gather that for every subreddit, some would find it frustrating to have HPMoR in that subreddit.
I should add: The main advantage for me of changing the subreddit partition of LW is to encourage a greater range and specificity of content; at the moment, I think some stuff I’d like to see is discouraged by the Main/Discussion partition. An example would be LWers picking a specific thing (a lifehack or specific self-improvement skill, say) and having a thread to post their progress, observations, and research. This seems like it’s currently acceptable in small amounts, but I think the level of such posts that would be most conducive to communal self-improvement would be frowned upon under the current partition; many would consider it spammy/obnxious.
1) Main/Eliezer-cluster: Epistemic rationality, FAI, cryonics, futurism, transhumanism, etc.
2) Instrumental & Skills: E.g. Be Specific, The Five-second Level, Fermi Estimates, How to Measure Anything, nootropics, Effective Altruism, how to dress, RATIONALIST TOOTHBRUSHING
3) ITL (In Tangible Life): Meetups, events of interest to the community, job openings, house/apartment openings/organisation
Keep Promoted, and have it draw from every subreddit.
The only thing I recall that might not obviously fit into one of these especially is HPMoR. I’m not bothered by HPMoR frenzies so don’t really mind, but I gather that for every subreddit, some would find it frustrating to have HPMoR in that subreddit.
I should add: The main advantage for me of changing the subreddit partition of LW is to encourage a greater range and specificity of content; at the moment, I think some stuff I’d like to see is discouraged by the Main/Discussion partition. An example would be LWers picking a specific thing (a lifehack or specific self-improvement skill, say) and having a thread to post their progress, observations, and research. This seems like it’s currently acceptable in small amounts, but I think the level of such posts that would be most conducive to communal self-improvement would be frowned upon under the current partition; many would consider it spammy/obnxious.