XiXiDu comments on Short Primers on Crucial Topics - Less Wrong

24 Post author: lukeprog 31 May 2012 12:46AM

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Comment author: XiXiDu 31 May 2012 09:24:10AM *  0 points [-]

Before you continue with this you should maybe try to get someone important read 'Facing the Singularity' without trying too hard. If that doesn't work then...

I have my doubts that someone like Terence Tao would read your primer.

For some time now I am watching the real-time stats for my homepage, especially when I post links at places where people of similar calibre to Terence Tao are chatting. And I seldom get more than 2 clicks, even if more than 20 people converse in that thread.

Now it is true that I am a nobody, why would they read a post written on my personal blog? But how would they know that something called 'Facing the Singularity' is more worthy of their attention?

If I really wanted to I would probably be able to get them read my stuff. But that's difficult and would probably take a middleman who shares a link to it on his blog/Google+/Facebook page and whose stuff is subsequently read by top-notch people.