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I was just thinking: this site is the result of splitting off from overcomingbias.com earlier this year. With its new format and functionality, comments and posts get ratings. But all of Eliezer Yudkowsky's posts from before the split don't have ratings comparable to more recent posts, because that would require people to go back through the old posts mod them up.
Some people have done so, but not enough that their ratings accurately compare with more recent top-level posts.
I suggest that everyone take the time to go back to the Eliezer_Yudkowsky top-level posts from before ~February '09, and vote up the ones you remember as being particularly good. If you wish, also mention what you voted on in this thread and why.
In order to avoid nudging anyone toward my picks, I'll wait a while and then say them.
If you need some help jogging your memory, here are some threads where people discussed highlights from when LW was overcomingbias.com: one, two, three.
Instead of vaguely asking people to go read some, why couldn't we do something more concrete? What we know gets traffic, and what everyone knows that everyone knows gets traffic (so you aren't pouring the water of your comments onto the sands of an abandoned page), is being on the front page. Instant traffic, entree into RSS feeds, etc.
Why not every 2 days without a fresh front page post, for example, automatically post the next old EY article? (I suggested this back when EY's old articles were being imported, but my suggestion was unjustly neglected, I felt; perhaps the need has become more apparent since.)
Those are good ideas too. But just to clarify, I wasn't asking people to read the whole archive, hoping to stumble upon something they remember as being good and modding it up. I was asking that if you already remember certain posts as being good (or find them in a quick perusal of the links I gave), take a moment to mod them up so their rating more accurately reflects their quality in comparison to more recent posts.
Unfortunately, all the non-fiction ones I remember seem to have prerequisites to really understand and grapple with them - prerequisites published before them!