Hi weathersystems, I like this idea. I have a few reactions to it.
First, it sounds like to be a success, you just need to find one other person to collaborate with. If you can find that person, go for it!
Secondly, if your goal is to get more people interested and more questions submitted, I think it’s worth taking more time to have individual conversations with specific people about topics you think they’d be interested in collaborating on based on their post history. Sussing out their level of interest, availability, and what sort of collaborative partner they’d like to find would be good.
When I think about who I’d like to collaborate with via LW, I think about other writers who have independently written insightful posts on topics very close to my own interests. To me, that signals potentially fruitful ground for collaboration. I’m starting to lean away from the model that long comment chains are the best way to do LW discussion, and toward the model that the most meaningful conversation on LW happens with full, well-considered blog posts responding to other full blog posts.
I think some question in this area would work well for this collaboration I’m proposing: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/oqSMn6WEXPdDEvyyt/what-question-would-you-like-to-collaborate-on
If you add a question there and it gets picked I’d be happy to work on this with you.
Hi weathersystems, I like this idea. I have a few reactions to it.
First, it sounds like to be a success, you just need to find one other person to collaborate with. If you can find that person, go for it!
Secondly, if your goal is to get more people interested and more questions submitted, I think it’s worth taking more time to have individual conversations with specific people about topics you think they’d be interested in collaborating on based on their post history. Sussing out their level of interest, availability, and what sort of collaborative partner they’d like to find would be good.
When I think about who I’d like to collaborate with via LW, I think about other writers who have independently written insightful posts on topics very close to my own interests. To me, that signals potentially fruitful ground for collaboration. I’m starting to lean away from the model that long comment chains are the best way to do LW discussion, and toward the model that the most meaningful conversation on LW happens with full, well-considered blog posts responding to other full blog posts.