A Sense that More Is Possible comes close, but doesn’t pass my “sniff test” of being the sort of page you’d want to have as the introduction of LessWrong to arbitrary transhumanists.
I don’t know that any page would be deeply persuasive; the About page is somewhat generic, and any specific article is already deeply entrenched/informed by the existence of the ideological framework that has evolved in this community over time.
There just doesn’t seem to be a single page on this site that ‘screams’ of the awesomeness of what, should what this site’s implicit agendas be validated, would be quite transformative and self-evident. This seems problematic to me, on entirely different / unrelated topics: what is it, precisely, that this community is missing to achieve that “foom” effect often mentioned? What great material effects has LW achieved, that would be materially persuasive to the uninformed and as-yet uninterested?
A Sense that More Is Possible comes close, but doesn’t pass my “sniff test” of being the sort of page you’d want to have as the introduction of LessWrong to arbitrary transhumanists.
I don’t know that any page would be deeply persuasive; the About page is somewhat generic, and any specific article is already deeply entrenched/informed by the existence of the ideological framework that has evolved in this community over time.
There just doesn’t seem to be a single page on this site that ‘screams’ of the awesomeness of what, should what this site’s implicit agendas be validated, would be quite transformative and self-evident. This seems problematic to me, on entirely different / unrelated topics: what is it, precisely, that this community is missing to achieve that “foom” effect often mentioned? What great material effects has LW achieved, that would be materially persuasive to the uninformed and as-yet uninterested?