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Vladimir_Nesov comments on [Altruist Support] How to determine your utility function - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 01 May 2011 10:56:59AM *  0 points [-]

Cargo cult is not your friend. Just because healthy wikis have this workflow, doesn't mean that bringing it here will make our wiki healthy. We need an understanding of how that would incite new editors. I expect that it won't, and if new editors ever appear, it will happen for other reasons.

Comment author: David_Gerard 01 May 2011 11:05:40AM -1 points [-]

It's experience, not cargo culting. There is a difference.

What brings new editors to a wiki is the wiki, and contributing to it, being personally useful to them. Then the wiki process of collaborative editing kicks in.

(e.g. I edit it to create pages I find personally useful to link to concerning LW concepts, for example. I expect others to have other uses.)