Kaj_Sotala comments on How to always have interesting conversations - Less Wrong

45 Post author: Kaj_Sotala 14 June 2010 12:35AM

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Comment author: Daniel_Burfoot 14 June 2010 08:20:42PM 7 points [-]

My advice, if you want to become a good conversationalist, is just to crank up the amount of time you spend having conversations. If you are really serious, you could consciously review conversations after the fact, to try to find patterns and see where you could have improved.

What's the link between visiting fellows and the weather?

Comment author: Kaj_Sotala 14 June 2010 10:03:36PM 2 points [-]

What's the link between visiting fellows and the weather?

The Visiting Fellows program is in California, which has a different weather than my native Finland. (There should possibly have been some intermediate node like "California" between "Weather" and "Visiting Fellows".)