John_Maxwell_IV comments on Learn A New Language! - Less Wrong

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Comment author: John_Maxwell_IV 20 May 2012 11:04:31PM 2 points [-]

Most posts in the sequences don't have any citations. A lot of the sequences look like original research to me, but I don't know all the research that has been done, so I might be wrong.

http://lesswrong.com/lw/o4/leave_a_line_of_retreat/

http://lesswrong.com/lw/od/37_ways_that_words_can_be_wrong/

Comment author: [deleted] 20 May 2012 11:36:38PM 4 points [-]

37 ways that words can be wrong is a sort of meta-post that is meant to tie together other posts, so I wouldn't use it as an example unless you're implying that all of them go uncited or completely unresearched.

Comment author: JoshuaZ 21 May 2012 12:54:59AM 2 points [-]

Yes, I daresay that the expected quality of mainspace posts is substantially higher than some of the posts in the Sequences. And that's ok.

Comment author: John_Maxwell_IV 21 May 2012 01:46:15AM *  4 points [-]

I disagree; I think our standards are too high for main. If we lowered our standards maybe main would actually see activity. When people see posts like this getting downvoted they learn that Less Wrong probably doesn't want to read what they write. Even if the stuff they want to write is pretty good.