I was thinking about this earlier today. Several years ago I used to read Gwern's blog and I was thinking to myself how difficult it would be for someone to do

I was thinking about this earlier today. Several years ago I used to read Gwern's blog and I was thinking to myself how difficult it would be for someone to do anything remotely similar in today's environment. It's not just the superficial stuff the author of this article is mentioning - editing HTML and CSS and glitter. It's deeper than that. There's just not enough attention to go around. The economics are off and the incentives are misaligned. No one's going to read a hyper-neurotic blog post about a quantified self experiment anymore and that sort of content won't fare well on tik tok. And it's a shame.