Solvent comments on Leveling Up in Rationality: A Personal Journey - Less Wrong

33 Post author: lukeprog 17 January 2012 11:02AM

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Comment author: Solvent 19 January 2012 10:16:00AM 1 point [-]

Apparently, Luke is the 41st most common baby name. I know 5 Lukes, according to Facebook. Are you sure it's that uncommon?

Comment author: lsparrish 19 January 2012 02:57:08PM 0 points [-]

Yes, I'd say there being 40 more common names in existence is enough to make it "kind of" uncommon. Certainly enough to explain why someone with a fairly small social group does not see it overlapping many times. I don't contest that in a large group like LW (or a moderately large Facebook network) you would expect to see multiple Lukes, indeed that is the point of using usernames.