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I don't think a shutdown is even remotely likely. LW is still the Schelling point for rationalist discussion; Roko-gate will follow us regardless; SSC/Gwern.net are personal blogs with discussion sections that are respectively unusable and nonexistent. CFAR is still an IRL thing, and almost all of MIRI/CFAR's fans have come from the internet.
Agreed though that LW is slowly losing steam, though. Not sure what should be done about it.
To have a website with content like the original Sequences, we need someone who (a) can produce enough great content, and (b) believes that producing content for a website is the best use of their time.
It already sounds like a paradox: the more rational and awesome a person is, the more likely it is that they can use their time much better than writing a blog.
Well, unless they use the blog to sell something...
I think Eliezer wrote the original Sequences pretty much to find people to cooperate with him at MIRI, and to make people more sympathetic and willing to send money to MIRI. Mission accomplished.
What would be the next mission (for someone else) which could be accomplished by writing interesting articles to LW?