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Vaniver comments on Upcoming LW Changes - Less Wrong Discussion

46 Post author: Vaniver 03 February 2016 05:34AM

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Comment author: Lumifer 03 February 2016 07:45:15PM *  3 points [-]

Details will follow.

The first, ahem, detail that needs clarification is the goals. The "social changes" aim to change LW in which direction? "Better" is not a good answer. What do you want to grow, what do you want to kill, what do you want to transplant? By which metrics will you decide whether you're getting closer to your goals?

What sort of medium do you think is best for this? A Slack chat? A regular thread here?

Not chat -- you want something slower and more deliberate. Maybe a set of forum threads, one per issue.

Comment author: Vaniver 03 February 2016 08:00:46PM 1 point [-]

The "social changes" aim to change LW in which direction?

I don't think there's a good short answer to this, because if I try to point at individual shifts and say "shifts like those shifts" I need to give many examples to give a clear picture, and if I try to point at principles guiding the shifts and say "shifts that follow those principles" I need to give many details about the principles to give a clear picture.

So I'll give a long answer, but that'll take time. (Maybe in the course of writing a long answer I'll discover the short version.)