XFrequentist comments on How to Be Happy - Less Wrong

129 Post author: lukeprog 17 March 2011 07:22AM

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Comment author: XFrequentist 17 March 2011 04:34:11PM 8 points [-]

Great stuff!

IMHO, you should consider labeling your "Win at Life" posts as a sequence at some point.

I leave the task of identifying the precise moment when a series of posts becomes a sequence to the philosophical faction of LW.

Comment author: lukeprog 17 March 2011 09:26:17PM 0 points [-]

Maybe.

How would I do that? What does 'labeling it a sequence' mean, exactly?

Comment author: Alicorn 17 March 2011 09:36:14PM 6 points [-]

When I did it, I wrote the whole thing in advance, made a first post that listed all the titles, and turned those titles into links as the posts themselves went up. And then I went around calling it "a sequence".

Comment author: XFrequentist 17 March 2011 10:02:00PM *  5 points [-]

What they said:

  1. make an index page with links to all the articles,
  2. add it to the "Sequences" wiki entry,
  3. start calling it a sequence.

I think that only Eliezer and Alicorn have actually done this, but then you're exceptionally prolific!

Comment author: Document 19 March 2011 09:37:11PM *  0 points [-]

I assumed that you meant indexing the posts with a tag (and calling it a sequence).

Comment author: JGWeissman 17 March 2011 09:29:06PM 1 point [-]

You could make an index page in the wiki, with a link and short description for included articles.

Comment author: lukeprog 17 March 2011 10:02:59PM *  7 points [-]

Thanks.

I added the wiki page and linked it from the sequences page and each of the member posts of that sequence. I called it 'The Science of Winning at Life' to pick out that distinctive feature of the posts on instrumental rationality I've been writing: heavy citation of the scientific literature.