Percent_Carbon comments on Our Phyg Is Not Exclusive Enough - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Percent_Carbon 15 April 2012 10:09:47AM 5 points [-]

This creates tension. I'm about .6 confident that tension is intentional.

You're suggesting a strategy of tension?

To be honest, I've always assumed that there exist a variety of more LW-spinoff private forums where the folks who have more specialized/advanced groundings get to interact without being bothered by the rest of us.

Aw. And they didn't invite nyan_sandwich. That's so sad.

He or she should get together with other people who haven't been invited to Even Less Wrong and form their own. Then one day they can get together with Even Less Wrong like some NFL/AFL merger, only with more power to save the world.

There would have to be a semaphore or something, somewhere. So these secret groups can let each other know they exist without tipping off the newbs.

Comment author: Percent_Carbon 16 April 2012 04:38:20AM 5 points [-]

There's probably no need for the groups to signal each other's existence.

When a new Secret Even Less Wrong is formed, members are previously formed Secret Even Less Wrongs who are still participating in Less Wrong are likely to receive secret invites to the new Secret Even Less Wrong.

Nyan_sandwich might set up his secret Google Group or whatever, invite the people he feels are worthy and willing to form the core of his own Secret Even Less Wrong, and receive in reply an invite to an existing Secret Even Less Wrong.

That might have already happened!

Comment author: TheOtherDave 15 April 2012 03:48:43PM 4 points [-]

You're suggesting a strategy of tension?

Nothing nearly that Macchiavelian, more of a strategy of homeostasis through dynamic equilibrium.