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I don't think there's enough content on LW to be worthwhile publishing a magazine. However, Eliezer's book on rationality should offer many of the same benefits.
Not all of the content needs to be from the most recent quarter. There could be classic articles too. But I think we might have enough content each quarter anyway. Let's see...
There were about 120 posts to Less Wrong from April 1 to June 30. The top ten highest-voted were Diseased thinking: dissolving questions about disease by Yvain, Eight Short Studies On Excuses by Yvain, Ugh Fields by Roko, Bayes Theorem Illustrated by komponisto, Seven Shiny Stories by Alicorn, Ureshiku Naritai by Alicorn, The Psychological Diversity of Mankind by Kaj Sotala, Abnormal Cryonics by Will Newsome, Defeating Ugh Fields In Practice by Psychohistorian, and Applying Behavioral Pscyhology on Myself by John Maxwell IV.
Maybe not all of those are appropriate for a magazine (e.g. Bayes Theorem Illustrated is too long). So maybe swap a couple of them out for other ones. Then maybe add a few classic LessWrong articles (for example, Disguised Queries would make a good companion piece to Diseased Thinking), add a few pages of advertising and maybe some rationality quotes, and you'd have at least 30 pages. I know I'd buy it.
It's not actually all that long; it's just that the diagrams take up a lot of space.
Well, I'd like to keep the diagrams if the article is to be used. I do like Bayes Theorem Illustrated and I think an explanation of Bayes Theorem is perfect content for the magazine. If I were designing the magazine I'd want to try to include it, maybe edited down in length.
Monthly seems too often. Quarterly might work.
A yearly anthology would be pretty good, though. HN is reusing others' content and can afford a faster tempo; but that simply means we need to be slower. Monthly is too fast, I suspect that quarterly may be a little too fast unless we lower our standards to include probably wrong but still interesting essays. (I think of "Is cryonics necessary?: Writing yourself into the future" as an example of something I'm sure is wrong, but was still interesting to read.)
How about thirdly!?
This post both made me laugh AND think it was a good idea; I'd love to see a magazine that was more than once a year. There's a bit of discussion of the most recent quarter; if people don't think that it is long enough (or that the pace will continue, or that people will consent to their articles being put in journals) a slight delay should help but a four times delay seems excessive.
There's certainly enough content to do at least one really good issue.