“Better Twitter” that promotes high quality conversations:
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If this comment leads you to try building a “Better Twitter” without acknowledging what makes this problem hard (and so many people to try and fail at it), and without some general idea of how to do better (beyond “startups are hard, but it will be ok!”), then this comment has harmed you. I hope you don’t go down that path
The comparative advantage of EA/Lesswrong
We already have a critical mass of people having a lot of unusually high quality online conversations every day (in Lesswrong and in the EA forum), including disagreeing with each other. Getting such a critical mass is a huge problem for almost anyone else who wants to try this
“Better Twitter” that promotes high quality conversations:
Disclaimer: This comment of mine might cause harm
If this comment leads you to try building a “Better Twitter” without acknowledging what makes this problem hard (and so many people to try and fail at it), and without some general idea of how to do better (beyond “startups are hard, but it will be ok!”), then this comment has harmed you. I hope you don’t go down that path
The comparative advantage of EA/Lesswrong
We already have a critical mass of people having a lot of unusually high quality online conversations every day (in Lesswrong and in the EA forum), including disagreeing with each other. Getting such a critical mass is a huge problem for almost anyone else who wants to try this
The Lesswrong dev team is already working on this problem.
How I’d approach this
Talk to the lesswrong team, my prior is that they’ll have suggestions that I can’t guess
Probably gradually turn lesswrong+EAForum into something better instead of starting from scratch? I’m not sure
Slowly expand to more people`