Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Ritual Report: NYC Less Wrong Solstice Celebration - Less Wrong

83 Post author: Raemon 20 December 2011 08:37PM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 20 December 2011 08:40:45PM 11 points [-]

Well this is awesome.

Comment author: Raemon 21 December 2011 06:39:16AM *  20 points [-]

This could goes without saying, especially when I post the actual ritual book and it's filled with phrases like "And now, a reading from the Sequences of Eliezer," but seriously, thank you for all the work you did to create this community, and to create an environment where this sort of event was not only conceivable but was a genuinely good idea.

Rituals are hard to create from scratch, and even if the NYC group had somehow found each other on their own (also unlikely) this event wouldn't have worked nearly as well without a common set of writings that we were inspired by, and which supply a surprisingly coherent narrative even when you add alien squid gods.

So, seriously, thank you. A lot.

Comment author: Raemon 20 December 2011 08:43:36PM *  3 points [-]

Thank you, and/or you're welcome.