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Comment author: root 12 June 2016 02:10:55PM 0 points [-]

Two questions:

  1. Can anyone who is a user for a significant amount of time give links to anything that wasn't deemed worhy of the sequences but is a worthy read? I have no idea when the sequences were collected but if LW was really great in the past, there would've been a bunch of other high-quality posts that are easily missed. This could also double as proof that LW was, indeed, as great as advertised.

  2. What do other places have that LW doesn't? If LW is dedicated to human rationality, is it truly doing that?

  3. Am I a complete dumbass for typing this? In hindsight, it doesn't take a special variation of Godwin's law to think 'someone probably posted a similar question before'.

Comment author: Manfred 13 June 2016 08:26:28PM *  4 points [-]

\1. There have been several posters who wrote some very nice articles, including Alicorn, lukeprog, Yvain, AnnaSalamon, and Wei_Dai. (Listed in order on a sort of life-hacks to decision-theory spectrum).

Oh, and here's a classic by that prolific author, anonymous (Who? That would be telling :) )

\2. To be uncharitable, we might say that other places have way more discussions of race, politics, and gender. Or to be uncontroversial, we might just say that other places have a lot more ordinary blog-type content, which people read for ordinary blog-type reasons.

A lot of diasporae I like most (E.g. Otium, Paul Christiano's medium) don't have such content, and are correspondingly unpopular.

\3. On question 1, there are definitely index posts aimed at this sort of thing, but I couldn't find the specific one I Was thinking of with just a cursory search.

Comment author: root 15 June 2016 01:55:54PM 0 points [-]

Excellent. Much appreciated.

Comment author: John_Maxwell_IV 12 June 2016 08:38:32PM 0 points [-]

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