I don’t think this argument is exactly true – we review and reject like 30 people a day from LW and accept 1-3, and most of the time we aren’t that optimistic about the 1-3, and it’s not that crazy that we switch to the world where we’re just actually pretty selective.
(I think you are nonetheless pointing at an important thing where, when you factor in a variety of goals / resources available, it probably makes more sense to think of LessWrong as a grayspace. Although I think Duncan also thinks, if it were trying on purpose to be a grayspace, there would be more active effort guiding people towards some particular way of thinking/conversing)
Also, Duncan’s written a fair amount about this both in blogposts and comment-back-and-forths and I’m feeling a bit of sadness of “this convo feels like by default it’s going to rehash the Duncan LW Concerns 101 conversation” instead of saying something new.
I don’t think this argument is exactly true – we review and reject like 30 people a day from LW and accept 1-3, and most of the time we aren’t that optimistic about the 1-3, and it’s not that crazy that we switch to the world where we’re just actually pretty selective.
(I think you are nonetheless pointing at an important thing where, when you factor in a variety of goals / resources available, it probably makes more sense to think of LessWrong as a grayspace. Although I think Duncan also thinks, if it were trying on purpose to be a grayspace, there would be more active effort guiding people towards some particular way of thinking/conversing)
Also, Duncan’s written a fair amount about this both in blogposts and comment-back-and-forths and I’m feeling a bit of sadness of “this convo feels like by default it’s going to rehash the Duncan LW Concerns 101 conversation” instead of saying something new.
Some recap:
Concentration of Force
Duncan Sabien on Moderating LessWrong