ciphergoth comments on Open Thread: February 2010 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: MrHen 10 February 2010 10:12:05PM 3 points [-]

Is there a way to get a "How am I doing?" review or some sort of mentor that I can ask specific questions? The karma feedback just isn't giving me enough detail, but I don't really want to pester everyone every time I have a question about myself.

The basic problem I need to solve is this: When I read an old post, how do I know I am hearing what I am supposed to be hearing? If I have a whole list of nitpicky questions, where do I go? If a question of mine goes unanswered, what do I do?

I don't know anyone here. I don't have the ability to stroll by someone and ask them for help.

Comment author: byrnema 10 February 2010 11:27:40PM 2 points [-]

These are excellent questions/ideas. I want a mentor too!

I thought about contacting you to see if you wanted to start a little study group reading through the sequences. (For example, I started reading through the metaethics sequence and it was useless. My kinds of questions are like, 'What do any of these words mean? What's the implied context? Etc., etc.) But I'm not very good at details, and couldn't imagine any way of doing so. Except maybe meeting somewhere like Second Life so we can chat...

Comment author: ciphergoth 10 February 2010 11:30:12PM 2 points [-]

Scheduled IRC meetings?

Comment author: CassandraR 10 February 2010 11:37:32PM 1 point [-]

Sounds good to me. I would enjoy being present at a meeting in order to discuss topics from this site.