Another commenter suggested a wiki of some sort related specifically to this blog – this might be very useful to allow us to organize the chronological postings into logical groupings, which would help us see categories of bias that had not been covered in much detail yet, as well as those that had received an abundance of coverage. This may stimulate Robin, Eliezer, and/or the other several dozen contributors to add postings filling in any missing gaps across the range of possible biases and self-deceptions.

In the end I found this a very profitable way to spend my time.

I’m a slow writer. If I broke my rule of one post per day, you’d be getting one post per month.

John: Eliezer’s current way of referring to “follow-up” posts and linking to old posts in the middle of the text is annoying for two reasons…

No, it’s your fault for not reading Overcoming Bias since the start of the year.

Just kidding. Believe me, I understand the problem.

Right now, though, it feels like I’m writing so hard, probably higher than my maximum sustainable output, that I don’t have any spare energy left to collect my posts into an organized list of surveys or a guide to the dependencies.

I’m not sure the basic task is avoidable – all these ideas are linked, and the best I can do is write in an order that respects their dependencies.

John: I just wish Eliezer could write a book or something.

See this post. (Yes, I’m being deliberately ironic here.)

I just wish Eliezer could write a book or something. That way I’d have a more structured way of learning this stuff. kc mentioned that the marginal utility of each post was decreasing. A book could easily solve this problem. The trouble with blogs is that everything has to be short-form.

Eliezer’s current way of referring to “follow-up” posts and linking to old posts in the middle of the text is annoying for two reasons. First of all, sometimes he’ll write something with a really intriguing title, and then say it’s a followup to something that looks boring that I haven’t read. Then I go to the thing I haven’t read and it’s a followup to something else I haven’t read. I got to that thing and start reading it, and there are a bunch of text links referring to older posts. I don’t really know whether I’m supposed to be reading those or not; the only thing I’m sure of is that I won’t be reading the post with the really intriguing title any time soon.

That said, if your goal is active conversations and that isn’t being met, that is something you’ve gotten immediate feedback on.

Presumably you’ll be dropping the lowest utility posts, so 3x / week is still pretty great .