The bigger discussion from maybe 7 years ago that Habryka refers to was as far as my memories goes his April first post in 2014 about Dath Ilan. The resulting discussion was critical enough of EY that from that point on most of EY’s writing was published on Facebook/Twitter and not LessWrong anymore. One his Facebook feed he can simply ban people who he finds annoying but on LessWrong he couldn’t.
Izzat true? Aside from edited versions of other posts and cross-posts by the LW admins, I see zero EY posts on LW between mid-September 2013 and Aug 2016, versus 21 real posts earlier in 2013, 29 in 2012, 12 in 2011, 17 in 2010, and ~180 in 2009.
So I see a big drop-off after the Sequences ended in 2009, and a complete halt in Sep 2013. Though I guess if he’d mostly stopped posting to LW anyway and then had a negative experience when he poked his head back in, that could cement a decision to post less to LW.
(This is the first time I’m hearing that the post got deleted, I thought I saw it on LW more recently than that?)
2017 is when LW 2.0 launched, so 2014-2016 was also a nadir in the site’s quality and general activity.
The bigger discussion from maybe 7 years ago that Habryka refers to was as far as my memories goes his April first post in 2014 about Dath Ilan. The resulting discussion was critical enough of EY that from that point on most of EY’s writing was published on Facebook/Twitter and not LessWrong anymore. One his Facebook feed he can simply ban people who he finds annoying but on LessWrong he couldn’t.
Izzat true? Aside from edited versions of other posts and cross-posts by the LW admins, I see zero EY posts on LW between mid-September 2013 and Aug 2016, versus 21 real posts earlier in 2013, 29 in 2012, 12 in 2011, 17 in 2010, and ~180 in 2009.
So I see a big drop-off after the Sequences ended in 2009, and a complete halt in Sep 2013. Though I guess if he’d mostly stopped posting to LW anyway and then had a negative experience when he poked his head back in, that could cement a decision to post less to LW.
(This is the first time I’m hearing that the post got deleted, I thought I saw it on LW more recently than that?)
2017 is when LW 2.0 launched, so 2014-2016 was also a nadir in the site’s quality and general activity.
I was active at that time on LessWrong and mostly go after my memory and memories for something that happened eight years ago isn’t perfect.
https://yudkowsky.tumblr.com/post/81447230971/my-april-fools-day-confession was to my memory also posted to LessWrong and the LessWrong site of that post is deleted.
When doing a Google search for the timeframe on LessWrong, that doesn’t bring up any mention of Dath Ilan.
Is your memory that Dath Ilan was just never talked about on LessWrong when Eliezer wrote that post?
which post is this? I looked on EY’s LW profile but couldn’t see which one this was referring to. There’s this blog post https://yudkowsky.tumblr.com/post/81447230971/my-april-fools-day-confession but it’s not on LW. also, it looks like there’s been a lot of posts from EY on LW since 2014?
I think that’s the post. As far as my memory goes, the criticism led to Eliezer deleting it from LessWrong.