Hyena comments on Epistle to the New York Less Wrongians - Less Wrong

90 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 20 April 2011 09:13PM

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Comment author: Hyena 20 April 2011 10:24:31PM 4 points [-]

Some of this post makes me wonder where Less Wrong sits within social networks. I suspect we have close ties to the BoingBoing-Make ecosystem and may even be part of it.

Comment author: Barry_Cotter 20 April 2011 10:46:01PM *  9 points [-]

I would be incredibly surprised if we are contained within it. I would be kind of surprised if we're contained to 90% within any 10X larger group. There is definitely a large overlap with Hacker News.

Comment author: David_Gerard 22 April 2011 06:19:02PM *  3 points [-]

I concur. I can't think of any Internet group I know of that LW overlaps substantially with. I can spot small segments of groups I'm in and around (Wikipedia, RationalWiki) and I'm actively trying to recruit people with an interest in rambunctious philosophy discussion ... LW has actually interested me in and taught me about philosophy more than anything I can think of, and I studied the stuff many years ago.

Comment author: Jolly 27 April 2011 06:01:06AM 4 points [-]

I note fair levels of overlap between less wrong and those in the transhumanist, H+, singularity, & cryonics communities.

Comment author: David_Gerard 27 April 2011 08:29:19AM *  0 points [-]

(cough) well, yes, apart from them, given it's run by the SIAI :-)

Comment author: [deleted] 27 April 2011 06:55:06AM 2 points [-]

LW has actually interested me in and taught me about philosophy more than anything I can think of, and I studied the stuff many years ago.

I feel the same way, for what it's worth.

Comment author: rfrankel 01 May 2011 10:12:09PM 0 points [-]

Most of the NYLW regulars aren't HN readers.