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).
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.