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Comment author: Lumifer 07 April 2016 04:53:18PM 1 point [-]

Where we're failing is in attracting interesting deep thoughts from people willing to expand and discuss those thoughts here.

Yep. That is THE problem that LW has to solve.

Notice how it doesn't care about which protocols are used to shuffle which bits back and forth.

Comment author: Viliam 08 April 2016 10:28:55AM *  3 points [-]

Protocols have an impact on discussion, and discussion has an impact on what articles people write.

Otherwise, Eliezer could have posted his Sequences on 4chan.

Comment author: Lumifer 08 April 2016 02:32:54PM 1 point [-]

Protocols have an impact on discussion

Not protocols. High-level structure of a BBS/mailing list/forum/Twitter/etc. Protocols (in the technical sense) provide some constraints on what kind of structures can be built on their basis, but there are enough degrees of freedom to construct very different things on top of the same protocols.

Otherwise, Eliezer could have posted his Sequences on 4chan.

So the difference between LW and 4chan is protocols..? X-)

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