RichardKennaway comments on Open Thread: January 2010 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 03 January 2010 08:17:00AM *  5 points [-]

Has anyone here tried Lojban? Has it been useful?


I recommend making a longer list of recent comments available, the way Making Light does.


If you've been working with dual n-back, what have you gotten out of it? Which version are you using?


Would an equivalent to a .newsrc be possible? I would really like to be able to tell the site that I've read all the comments in a thread at a given moment, so that when I come back, I'll default to only seeing more recent comments.

Comment author: RichardKennaway 03 January 2010 10:30:07AM 2 points [-]

Years ago I was involved with both Loglan (the original) and Lojban (the spin-off, started by a Loglan enthusiast who thought the original creator was being too possessive of Loglan). For me it was simply an entertaining hobby, along with other conlangs such as Láadan and Klingon. But in the history of artificial languages, it is important as the first to be based on the standard universal language of mathematics, first-order predicate calculus.