Jack comments on Questions for shminux - Less Wrong

-4 Post author: Thomas 22 June 2012 07:35PM

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Comment author: Jack 22 June 2012 08:56:16PM 5 points [-]

I'm not sure why Less Wrong is the appropriate place for these kind of questions instead of, say, Reddit's Ask Science. You'd probably get half a dozen physicists jumping over themselves to answer your question over there, no?

Comment author: komponisto 22 June 2012 09:15:19PM 7 points [-]

I don't know about Thomas, but I sure as heck would prefer to discuss physics on LW (if possible, i.e. if appropriately knowledgeable people are present here) rather than an ordinary forum. Less inferential distance, more common assumptions (e.g. that we're not interested in guessing passwords), etc.

See also here (second bullet). (This post now joins the list of examples.)