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If Eliezer updates on the eve of the SAT, I'm going to track him down and read Vogon Poetry at him.
Will you do that before or after taking the SATs?
What's the eve of the SAT?
March 9, apparently.
Although I don't see why this is important enough to consider. How many HPMOR readers do you expect will be taking the SAT on March 10?
Oh bloody hell. Well, now I have a cute little Moral Dilemma on my hands.
Huh? Looks easily resolvable to me.
If disutility of Locke (possibly) doing significantly worse on his SAT outweighs the utility of hundreds (thousands?) of readers getting an HPMOR chapter a day early, release on March 9. Otherwise, release on March 10.
Or, you know, release on March 8. No one would complain about that.
Moving on March 10th. Board meeting March 11th. Said I'd try to get to it by 11th.
The SAT really matters to a lot of people's lives, though. But maybe some people would get a nice hedonic boost? Ugh.
I'm a reader who would not be directly affected by the timing relative to the SAT, and I say, please don't stick to the earlier date on my account. I would feel bad suspecting that other readers, who are taking the SAT, were harmed for my pleasure.
Don't know if I am a representative reader, though.
I agree.
How long does it take to post a chapter? o.O
I'd have thought you could do it in 2 minutes of off-time.
My current plan is to try to do it during the Board meeting on Sunday. 7pm on Saturday I'll probably be driving, or if not driving, supervising a move with no Internet access set up yet.
Awesome. Thanks so much for making time for your enthusiastic and eager followers during what must be a hectic period.
You have my gratitude. Do you think you can post a status update so people who don't browse Less Wrong can know?
I'll get back to studying now.
Eh, if on March 11th the guy will have just moved, it'd probably take him significantly more than 2 minutes to just unpack his computer, set up his internet connection (if it has been set up all), etc, etc.
Still, I'd tell him to leave it for the 11th, or even the 12th if that's not possible, rather than distract SAT students on the 9th or 10th. (Not that this relates to me personally, btw, I'm neither an American nor a student). He can leave a small note saying he leaves it for the 12th, if need be.
That possibility had just not occurred to me. Everyone I know has a laptop or a phone with internet access for when they're on the move. And I live in India. I'd have expected America to have better always-on internet connectivity.
I myself live in Greece and do have an IPhone with internet access, but I'd still not try to upload a whole chapter onto fanfiction.net with it.
Presumably the writing is the major factor. I doubt he's sitting around going 'where could I possibly fit in 2 minutes of Internet access?'
He's already written all but the last chapter, I believe.
There you go, then.
As a new lesswrongER, perhaps the most exciting thing about this community is the ability to reference Douglas Adams un-cited and assume that people will know exactly what I'm talking about.
Welcome, both to LW and to the part of the internet where you can reference SciFi to your heart's content.
Wow, which communities did you previously hang out in?