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This is an experiment in short-form content on LW2.0. I'll be using the comment section of this post as a repository of short, sometimes-half-baked posts that either:
don't feel ready to be written up as a full post
I think the process of writing them up might make them worse (i.e. longer than they need to be)
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I'm really not sure what we're supposed to do about this.
In the long run, filtering / metafiltering has to be the way, right? (Acknowledging that this is difficult.)
Very old written works tend be very interesting, but there's an extreme selection effect on publishing effort; cheaper publishing culminating in the internet and then double-culminating in LLMs leads to progressively more ensloppening. Today we can get by with extreme fragmentation (loss of common knowledge channels / CK between smaller sets of people) and local manual modding. There's theory to be done here about attention (piggybacking on channels), common knowledge, filtering and metafiltering (eigen-stuff), etc....
This is an experiment in short-form content on LW2.0. I'll be using the comment section of this post as a repository of short, sometimes-half-baked posts that either:
I ask people not to create top-level comments here, but feel free to reply to comments like you would a FB post.