David_Gerard comments on Reading the Sequences before Starting to Post: Costs and Benefits - Less Wrong

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Comment author: David_Gerard 31 March 2011 01:49:43PM -1 points [-]

Many topics have been well covered in the squences, additional intro material on those topics is not needed (as has been done a couple of times on decision theory), unless it's really good.

The sequences form an index of EY material. There is not a similar index for non-EY posts from 2009 on.

Comment author: timtyler 31 March 2011 08:30:19PM *  1 point [-]
Comment author: David_Gerard 31 March 2011 09:29:35PM *  0 points [-]

Most useful, thank you!

(I wonder when someone will put together a page for the "Race and IQ" sequence.)

Comment author: Emile 31 March 2011 02:25:32PM 1 point [-]

Agreed, which is why you seldom hear "you n00b, go read the dozens of unindexed posts!". It's a bit of a pity those aren't better indexed - a few of them are referenced on the wiki, but I don't know how many people use it to look for new posts to read (I know the wiki helped me when looking for older posts on decision theory).

A bloglike thing like LessWrong may not be the best format for collecting information for a rationalist community. Maybe it would be better to use some kind of of rationalist wiki ;-)

Comment author: atucker 31 March 2011 02:59:44PM *  4 points [-]

People have started indexing a few Yvain, Alicorn, and lukeprog posts into minor sequences.