I think it’s because these people don’t consider their Twitter content fitting for LW? LW has strict requirements for signal-to-noise ratio and a lot of Twitter stuff is just shitposting.
Not even fitting for Quick Takes? We could have a “Quicker Quick Takes” or “LW Shitposts” section for all I care. (More seriously if you really wanted some separate category for this you could name it something like “LW Microblog”.)
My strictly personal hot take is that Quick Takes became a place of hiding from responsibility of top level posts. People sometimes write very large Quick Takes which certainly would be top level posts, but, in my model of these people, top level posts have stricter moderation and cause harsher perception and scarier overall, so people opt out for Quick Takes. I’m afraid if we create even less strict section of LW, people are going to migrate there entirely.
I post a good amount on Twitter (mostly replying to other people) and think it wouldn’t make any sense to post approximately any of that to LW. They are just very different platforms with very different cultures.
Agreed. Some of the content I post on Twitter could eventually make its way into a LW post or comment, but it would have to be completely rewritten. I think I have seen some people crosspost Twitter threads on LW, and found it annoying.
Out of curiosity, why do you post on Twitter? Is it network effects, or does it just have such a unique culture that’s not available anywhere else? (Or something else?) Do you not feel any kind of aversion towards the platform, which would potentially discourage you from interacting? (I don’t mean this to sound accusatory, if your position is that “yes Twitter is awesome and more rationalists should join” I would also like to hear about that.)
I mostly reply to people on Twitter. Also, the shape of my reply tends to be definitely much more oriented around “convincing the audience” or “correcting the record” than to have a conversation with the specific person I am replying to. This makes me a bit sad, but I think it overall makes public discourse better.
I think it’s because these people don’t consider their Twitter content fitting for LW? LW has strict requirements for signal-to-noise ratio and a lot of Twitter stuff is just shitposting.
Not even fitting for Quick Takes? We could have a “Quicker Quick Takes” or “LW Shitposts” section for all I care. (More seriously if you really wanted some separate category for this you could name it something like “LW Microblog”.)
Also a lot of Eliezer’s tweets are quite high effort, to the point where some of them get cross-posted as top level posts. (E.g. https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/fPvssZk3AoDzXwfwJ/universal-basic-income-and-poverty )
My strictly personal hot take is that Quick Takes became a place of hiding from responsibility of top level posts. People sometimes write very large Quick Takes which certainly would be top level posts, but, in my model of these people, top level posts have stricter moderation and cause harsher perception and scarier overall, so people opt out for Quick Takes. I’m afraid if we create even less strict section of LW, people are going to migrate there entirely.
I post a good amount on Twitter (mostly replying to other people) and think it wouldn’t make any sense to post approximately any of that to LW. They are just very different platforms with very different cultures.
Agreed. Some of the content I post on Twitter could eventually make its way into a LW post or comment, but it would have to be completely rewritten. I think I have seen some people crosspost Twitter threads on LW, and found it annoying.
Out of curiosity, why do you post on Twitter? Is it network effects, or does it just have such a unique culture that’s not available anywhere else? (Or something else?) Do you not feel any kind of aversion towards the platform, which would potentially discourage you from interacting? (I don’t mean this to sound accusatory, if your position is that “yes Twitter is awesome and more rationalists should join” I would also like to hear about that.)
I mostly reply to people on Twitter. Also, the shape of my reply tends to be definitely much more oriented around “convincing the audience” or “correcting the record” than to have a conversation with the specific person I am replying to. This makes me a bit sad, but I think it overall makes public discourse better.
Sometimes one wants to play around in the mud. I don’t think I can provide a better reason for using Twitter than that.