I'm not sure about the "__ in One Lesson" posts — I think it would be a good project to complete the sequence indexes that don't already have post summaries, but the sequences themselves are pretty information-dense; how would you condense them without losing a lot of their value?
Would they be targeted at people who have already read the full sequence and want a refresher/index, or at people who haven't read them yet, as an introduction?
It would indeed be hard to compress those sequences - and impossible for other sequences, such as those on meta-ethics and quantum physics. But I think it could be done. Some information would have to be lost, but that is okay: it's still there in the original sequence.
The goal would be to lower the barrier of entrance to Less Wrong. Right now the entrance exam is, "Go read the sequences," which is a command to read more words than are in Lord of the Rings. That's insane. We need a better way to welcome newbies into the site.
Less Wrong is a large community of very smart people with a wide spectrum of expertise, and I think relatively little of that value has been tapped.
Like my post The Best Textbooks on Every Subject, this is meant to be a community-driven post. The first goal is to identify topics the Less Wrong community would like to read more about. The second goal is to encourage Less Wrongers to write on those topics. (Respecting, of course, the implicit and fuzzy guidelines for what should be posted to Less Wrong.)
One problem is that those with expertise on a subject don't necessarily feel competent to write a front-page post on it. If that's the case, please comment here explaining that you might be able to write one of the requested posts, but you'd like a writing collaborator. We'll try to find you one.
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I will regularly update the list of suggested Less Wrong posts, ranking them in descending order of votes (like this).
The List So Far (updated 02/11/11)