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Comment author: [deleted] 30 June 2012 09:21:07AM *  5 points [-]

New heuristic: When writing an article for LessWrong assume the casual reader knows about the material covered in HPMOR.

I used to think one could assume they read the sequences and some other key stuff (Hanson ect.), but looking at debates this simply can't be true for more than a third of current LW users.