Lesswrong has degraded because high-quality and previously prolific authors including Eliezer, Luke, and Yvain write much less for us. One quick way to improve the quality of LW would be for Yvain to cross-post from his personal blog here (which I would particularly benefit from since his blog doesn’t let me comment and I’m almost certain this isn’t because Yvain banned me.)
I second the idea of Slate Star Codex being crossposted here. Yvain makes good posts there, and LW is better formatted for discussion (better comment threading, etc).
While true that Scott’s posts would make this site much more interesting, he stated his reasons for not posting here much anymore, and until his concerns are addressed simply copying his posts does not seem like a smart and honest solution.
he stated his reasons for not posting here much anymore
Do you have a link to where he did that? I recall reading it, but it was long enough ago that I don’t remember the actual reasons, and I’m not finding it quickly.
[Edit] I think this is probably the right comment:
Less Wrong requires no politics / minimal humor / definitely unambiguously rationality-relevant / careful referencing / airtight reasoning (as opposed to a sketch of something which isn’t exactly true but points to the truth.) This makes writing for Less Wrong a chore as opposed to an enjoyable pastime.
Right, that’s the one. I’m no Yvain, but I do have a dozen or so post drafts which I think would be relevant, but they will probably never be completed because of the effort required for “careful referencing / airtight reasoning (as opposed to a sketch of something which isn’t exactly true but points to the truth.) ” On the other hand, I see sloppy posts in Discussion all the time, and I don’t want to post stuff like that, so I am not sure what to do about it.
Some of my favorite posts have been speculation from people like Konkvistador or many of the sequence posts. Not everything needs to be a lukeprog post and I’m kind of sad about his domination of the style.
The neoreactionaries have mostly departed to their own blogosphere feeling unwelcome here, particularly with Yvain’s Anti-Reactionary FAQ and EY’s explicit repudiation of the concept (based on said FAQ).
Lesswrong has degraded because high-quality and previously prolific authors including Eliezer, Luke, and Yvain write much less for us. One quick way to improve the quality of LW would be for Yvain to cross-post from his personal blog here (which I would particularly benefit from since his blog doesn’t let me comment and I’m almost certain this isn’t because Yvain banned me.)
I second the idea of Slate Star Codex being crossposted here. Yvain makes good posts there, and LW is better formatted for discussion (better comment threading, etc).
Possibly the ban on James Donald affected everyone named James. Try posting again now.
I just tried on your triggers article.
Thanks for taking the time to fix the issue.
While true that Scott’s posts would make this site much more interesting, he stated his reasons for not posting here much anymore, and until his concerns are addressed simply copying his posts does not seem like a smart and honest solution.
Do you have a link to where he did that? I recall reading it, but it was long enough ago that I don’t remember the actual reasons, and I’m not finding it quickly.
[Edit] I think this is probably the right comment:
Right, that’s the one. I’m no Yvain, but I do have a dozen or so post drafts which I think would be relevant, but they will probably never be completed because of the effort required for “careful referencing / airtight reasoning (as opposed to a sketch of something which isn’t exactly true but points to the truth.) ” On the other hand, I see sloppy posts in Discussion all the time, and I don’t want to post stuff like that, so I am not sure what to do about it.
Some of my favorite posts have been speculation from people like Konkvistador or many of the sequence posts. Not everything needs to be a lukeprog post and I’m kind of sad about his domination of the style.
The neoreactionaries have mostly departed to their own blogosphere feeling unwelcome here, particularly with Yvain’s Anti-Reactionary FAQ and EY’s explicit repudiation of the concept (based on said FAQ).
Only encourage sketch-posts from people who have proven themselves non-sloppy thinkers, using some high karma threshold (perhaps 10k) as the metric?
“Less Wrong” requires? Who is Less? I haven’t met him.
The list will be what people decide to make it. Write what you want. People will like it or they won’t. You’ll care or you won’t.
So he could cross-post in discussion not main.
He keeps changing the spam filtering, so maybe you can post again.