Elo comments on Preference over null preference - Less Wrong

-7 Post author: Elo 05 September 2016 12:47PM

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Comment author: Elo 06 September 2016 11:02:04PM -2 points [-]

"volume of writing"

I should clarify because I mixed a few problems into one when talking about them.

  1. low volume of posts on lw
  2. low volume of writing coming from me personally
  3. quality of my writing

while partly trying to solve the community's low volume problem I was trying to solve my own low volume problem. Now that I am fairly happy with my personal solution, I was planning to solve my quality problem, and that should help the LW volume problem properly.

Separate but relevant: All of the posts that I wrote and think are the most valuable posts that I have written - were not possible to predict before writing. So in a sense I have to have written out the idea before realising it's value, and I would say also that I have to share the idea in order to figure out how much people care about it before noticing how important/valuable it is.