I strongly agree. Looking through the first few pages of the all-time highest-rated posts, it's surprising how many of them contain implicit dependencies. For example, even Yvain's standalone post Schelling fences on slippery slopes contains an implicit reference that leads all the way back to CFAI via the Gandhi example. That said, "has a dependency" is not a binary condition that disqualifies a post from being accessible, since one can still enjoy Yvain's post without knowing the reference. So some good taste will probably be required to determine if a post is accessible to people who don't know the prerequisites.
I was thinking of a coarser dependence structure: packaging posts into collections, ordering them within collections, and suggesting other collections or original sequences as prerequisites for new collections.
Could be implemented using some kind of "call for post suggestions" threads that specify a topic for a collection to be constructed, or central posts that set the topic. Note that even Yvain's summer 2011 post sequence isn't collected into a list accessible from the wiki (IIRC).
As you are probably aware, we have a new front page featuring a graphic of a brain. One of the links on the front page, "A source of edited rationality materials," links to the Less Wrong meetup group resources page. A number of users have suggested that this isn't the best page to show off to new readers, and lukeprog has requisitioned a new page to replace it.
I've volunteered to create this new page, but I'd like it to be a collaborative community project.
I'd like this new page to contain a few introductory paragraphs about Less Wrong followed by an index of some of our best content. At the moment, though, this project is still in the brainstorming phase, so this is just a tentative plan. I'd like to hear your thoughts about what the page should contain, including its content, layout, and organization. You can help out by editing the wiki page or by leaving suggestions and feedback in the comments below. Your input is always welcome, even if it's just "This is a terrible idea" or "I think this post should be in there."
Link to the wiki page.