MichaelGR comments on A Less Wrong Q&A with Eliezer (Step 1: The Proposition) - Less Wrong

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Comment author: MichaelGR 29 October 2009 05:50:30PM 4 points [-]

Wake up from what? Guess I should've added a disclaimer about some parts of this being tongue-in-cheek to avoid the "cultish" accusations... I thought it was pretty transparent, but I guess nothing is obvious on the internet.

Anyway, I think Eliezer has a lot of interesting things to say and the BHTV episodes have left me on my appetite.

What's cultish about wanting to set up a Q&A (something that Slashdot, Digg, etc have been doing for a long time)?

Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 29 October 2009 05:55:12PM 0 points [-]

What's cultish about wanting to set up a Q&A (something that Slashdot, Digg, etc have been doing for a long time)?

That was covered by the "idea of interviews isn't [cultish] at all", while tongue-in-cheek part obviously didn't register.

Comment author: MichaelGR 29 October 2009 06:13:14PM *  2 points [-]

My mistake was probably to carry assumptions I have about other online communities to Less Wrong, where the rules are different. I guess next time I'll just write:

"Anyone interested in doing a Q&A? If so, I suggest we find someone to interview and then rank questions by voting."