Lumifer comments on LessWrong 2.0 - Less Wrong

89 Post author: Vaniver 09 December 2015 06:59PM

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Comment author: Vamair0 09 December 2015 07:55:43PM 1 point [-]

I believe at least some people here have some stuff they want to do that is not orthogonal with rationality and may be helped by a group effort. Translation of some materials, writing articles, research, programming projects, just discussions of some topics. Then there is going to be a Group Bragging thread, where people can tell how much they have managed to do in a month or so. If the group hasn't bragged for a few months, it's considered dead. That can also give us some new info about group building and maintainance, which seems like a neglected topic here, as well as some data about which groups survive better than the others.

Comment author: Lumifer 09 December 2015 09:48:28PM 0 points [-]

I believe at least some people here have some stuff they want to do ... and may be helped by a group effort.

That's generally true for any sufficiently large collection of people. The issue is how do you bootstrap the whole group coalescence process.

Comment author: Vamair0 13 December 2015 09:40:46AM 0 points [-]

Generally true, and that's the reason I believe it. As for group coalescence process... I'm thinking about paying lots of attention to newcomers and setting an active chat as well as a dedicated "meeting" time at least once a week when everybody's online to discuss the topic at hand. Sure, any group may add anything they want if they think it helps.