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Interesting point: How does anybody find LW? Suppose you're out in cyberspace, wanting to discuss rationality. What search term could you enter to find this place? Googling "rationality" doesn't turn up LW.
Should I put a link to Less Wrong in the Wikipedia page on rationality? Is there a better keyword than 'rationality' for LW?
My sister sent me a link to HP:MOR I read it, got to the end, and decided I wanted more MOR...
So I dug into it. EY's username is "lesswrong" which I googled and found this site.
As a side-point. My sister doesn't seem to have been interested in coming to lesswrong.
I also posted the link on facebook... so all my friends (male and female) would have seen it. I've also blogged about it on my tech-blog (I have 175 regular subscribers - mostly male but some female through girlgeek blogs).
No idea if anybody followed me through the looking glass.
How about linking to it on TV Tropes? Clearly many participants of LW are Tropers already. Tropers are young, nerdy, and numerous, after all. Also less likely to be put off by dense linkage throughout articles.
Such as This one for some Weird But True topics, or This One for the Weirdest topic of all.
After all There Is No Such Thing As Notability
Please don't. As a long-time Wikipedian, I can tell you any sane editor will nuke that addition on sight becuase it looks like (and IMO, is) self-promotion.
More logical places to add it, where it might make sense, would be the pages on Eliezer Yudkowsky and SIAI.
(I'd add Robin Hanson, but I get the impression he's chosen to remain only associated with OB. What's up with that anyway? Sometimes it feels like LW/OB is a schism - the EY-ites have migrated to LW, and the Hansonites squat on the remnants of OB.)
I've migrated to LW because threaded discussions are SO VERY MUCH BETTER! Locating old posts is easier; commenting is quicker; karma is fun (and a rationality test - not the getting it, but the not caring too much about it).
EDIT: The ability to edit my comments is also a huge win. I always write something wrong the first time, even when taking this rule into account.
Also, if I catch up on my reading and make 3 comments, on OB I have to wait an hour before I can make a 4th comment.
The latter is of debatable relevance; and it's already linked from the former (and has been for weeks, it seems).
Well, as an additional data point on how folks find less wrong, I found it through Overcoming Bias. I found that site via a link from some extropian or transhumanist blog, although I'm not sure which.
And I found the current set of my extropian and/or transhumanist blogs by actively looking for articles on cutting-edge science, which turn out to often be referenced by transhumanist blogs.
I, too, found Less Wrong from Overcoming Bias; I'm pretty sure I found Overcoming Bias from some comment on author David Brin's blog, but I don't remember when.