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Sometimes I'll be speaking to someone and use an obscure word or concept they're unfamiliar with. There's a few different reactions, and, we

(Part of a sequence on discussion technology and NNTP. As last time, I should probably emphasize that I am a crank on this subject and do no

A few months ago, Vaniver wrote a really long post speculating about potential futures for Less Wrong, with a focus on the idea that the spr

The Less Wrong Study Hall is still going, two years after its creation. I'm trying to make last year's survey an annual thing, so I did it a

I'm reading Thinking, Fast and Slow. In appendix B I came across the following comment. Emphasis mine: Studies of language comprehension

I forgot about it until after were were past the Hall's birthday, so the survey is late this year and won't run for as long. Nevertheless, f

“Your instinct is to talk your way out of the situation, but that is an instinct born of prior interactions with reasonable people of good f

Some time back, a small group of Less Wrongers collected in a video chatroom to work on…things. We’ve been at it for exactly one year as of

I don't acknowledge an upload as "me" in any meaningful sense of the term; if I copied my brain to a computer and then my body was destroyed

diegocaleiro said this in Research is Polygamous: Being in an area where the most awesome people are is not asking to "lose the game" it