Eliezer Yudkowsky is kind of a god around here, isn’t he?
Would you happen to know what percentage of total upvotes on this website are attributed to his posts? It’s impressive how many sheer good ideas written in clear form that he’s had to come up with to reach that level. Cool and everything, but isn’t it ultimately proof that LessWrong is still in its fledgling stage (which it may never leave), as it depends so much on the ideas of its founder? I’m not sure how one goes about this, but expanding the LessWrong repertoire in a consequential way seems like a good next step for LessWrong. Perhaps that includes changing the posts in the Library… I don’t know.
Anyhow thanks for this comment, it was great reading!
Right, but if LessWrong is to become larger, it might be a good idea to stop leaving his posts as the default (the Library, the ones being recommended in the front page, etc.) I don’t doubt that his writing is worth reading and I’ll get to it, I’m just offering an outsider’s view on this whole situation, which seems a little stagnant to me in a way.
That last reply of mine, a reply to a reply to a Shortform post I made, can be found after just a little scrolling on the main page of LessWrong. I should be a nobody to the algorithm, yet I’m not. My only point is that LessWrong seems big because it has a lot of posts but it isn’t growing as much as it should be. That may be because the site is too focused on a single set of ideas, and that shooes some people away. I think it’s far from being an echo chamber, but it’s not as lively as I would think it should be.
As I’ve noted though, I’m a humble outsider and have no idea what I’m talking about. I’m only writing this because often outsider advice is valuable as there’s no chance in getting trapped into echo thinking at all.
Related:
“If You Demand Magic, Magic Won’t Help”
“Excluding the Supernatural”
“Joy in the Merely Real”
“Mundane Magic”
Eliezer Yudkowsky is kind of a god around here, isn’t he?
Would you happen to know what percentage of total upvotes on this website are attributed to his posts? It’s impressive how many sheer good ideas written in clear form that he’s had to come up with to reach that level. Cool and everything, but isn’t it ultimately proof that LessWrong is still in its fledgling stage (which it may never leave), as it depends so much on the ideas of its founder? I’m not sure how one goes about this, but expanding the LessWrong repertoire in a consequential way seems like a good next step for LessWrong. Perhaps that includes changing the posts in the Library… I don’t know.
Anyhow thanks for this comment, it was great reading!
The Creator God, in fact. LessWrong was founded by him.
All of the Sequences are worth reading.
Right, but if LessWrong is to become larger, it might be a good idea to stop leaving his posts as the default (the Library, the ones being recommended in the front page, etc.) I don’t doubt that his writing is worth reading and I’ll get to it, I’m just offering an outsider’s view on this whole situation, which seems a little stagnant to me in a way.
That last reply of mine, a reply to a reply to a Shortform post I made, can be found after just a little scrolling on the main page of LessWrong. I should be a nobody to the algorithm, yet I’m not. My only point is that LessWrong seems big because it has a lot of posts but it isn’t growing as much as it should be. That may be because the site is too focused on a single set of ideas, and that shooes some people away. I think it’s far from being an echo chamber, but it’s not as lively as I would think it should be.
As I’ve noted though, I’m a humble outsider and have no idea what I’m talking about. I’m only writing this because often outsider advice is valuable as there’s no chance in getting trapped into echo thinking at all.