Ishaan comments on Which subreddits should we create on Less Wrong? - Less Wrong
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The categories of stuff on LW as I perceive them (in no particular order) are:
Philosophy
-Values and ethics (human, utilitarian, alien, or otherwise)
-Game Theory (subset of instrumental rationality)
-Epistemology (epistemic rationality)
Activism
-Effective Altruism (Givewell, 8000hours, meta charity)
-X-risk reduction
-investment in far future
Personal Development
-happiness-boosting
-Fighting Akrasia (procrastination, motivation, willpower)
-optimizing your organism (body, mind, nootropics, supplements,exercise, etc)
-good habits and heuristics (especially organization, decision making)
-tools and educational resources
-bias recognition and reduction
Self Referential
-about Lesswrong and associated blogosphere
-book reviews and views of various philosophers
-rationalist fiction, especially hpmor
Checking back, they line up well with yours.
However, as someone who is interested in all of these things, for me a more pressing problem is: how can we collate past content so that it will be easy to access now? There are a lot of great posts that aren't in the sequences, that I don't want to spend lots of time digging through and finding.
I think most people interested in one LW topic tend to be interested in others, so I'm not sure how much creating separate subreddits will improve anything.