Open Thread, May 5 - 11, 2014

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Open Thread, May 5 - 11, 2014 — LessWrong

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Is Less Wrong dying?

Some observations...

The top level posts are generally well below the quality of early material, including the sequences, in my estimation.
'Main' posts are rarely even vaguely interesting to me anymore.
'Top Contributors' karma values seem very low compared to what I remember them being ~9-12 months ago.
'Discussion' posts are littered with Meetup reminders.

About all I look at on LW anymore is the Open Discussion Thread, Rationality Quotes and the link to Slate Star Codex. I noticed CFAR and MIRI's websites gave me the impression they were getting more traction and perhaps making some money.

Has LW run it's course?

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Kaj_Sotala12y30

I remember people saying things like "Less Wrong is dying" for a long time, from 2010 at least. Which doesn't invalidate the claim that LW's much more quiet than it used to be, of course, but it does challenge the claim that this would be a recent development.

9Viliam_Bur12y

Maybe it's because the important things have started, and moved to real life, outside of the LW website. There are people writing and publishing papers on Friendly AI, there are people researching and teaching rationality exercises; there are meetups in many countries. -- Although, if this is true, I would expect more reports here about what happens in the real life. (Remember the fundamental rule of bureaucracy: If it ain't documented, it didn't happen.) Anyway, this is only a guess; it would be interesting to really know what's happening...

11Shmi12y

It seems to be a common sentiment, actually. I mentioned this a few times on #lesswrong and the regulars there appear to agree. Whether this is a some sort of confirmation bias, I am not sure. Fortunately, there is a way to measure it: * Look at the recent Main entries: http://lesswrong.com/recentposts/ * Then look at the entries from about 1 year ago: http://lesswrong.com/recentposts/?count=250&after=t3_gnv Count interesting articles from each period and compare the numbers.

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You know the drill - If it's worth saying, but not worth its own post (even in Discussion), then it goes here.

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