John_Maxwell_IV comments on Intellectual insularity and productivity - Less Wrong Discussion
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Your post is all generalizations, with almost no specific examples. I think I disagree with most of the generalizations, but it would take an equally long post for me to explore why for each generalization.
In any case, you don't make any recommendations for how Less Wrong users should change their behavior. I might agree with those if you had made them. Here are some possible policy prescriptions based on your complaints:
I recommend in future posts of this sort you attempt to take a random sample of Less Wrong posts and discuss them, so you will actually have evidence to support your claims.
I often do this all the time and see others do so as well. Unfortunately it dosen't seem to propagate the same way main articles written by Yvain or EY seem to even when the writing is of comparable quality. There seems little sense to accompany quality texts written by outside authors with more than some additional commentary or emphasis. Why duplicate labour and rewrite something that is already ok?
The "low hanging fruit" posts that recently popped up in discussion seemed like a promising trend to me. I want a lot more of people noticing how to do something slightly more optimally and posting it to discussion.
Maybe this is because more people see articles that are in Main?
Policy prescription: Allow posting of links in Main. I agree; whether something goes in Main should be based on how useful and important it is, not superficial considerations like whether you need to click a link to read it.
I agree. Maybe a policy where link articles over say 20 karma go there, or perhaps a once a month "best links" summary?