John_Maxwell_IV comments on Proposed rewrites of LW home page, about page, and FAQ - Less Wrong

18 Post author: John_Maxwell_IV 17 August 2012 10:41PM

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Comment author: John_Maxwell_IV 19 August 2012 08:39:50AM 1 point [-]

In other words, the people here seem unusually likely to assume that you're a moron and so you have to be careful to avoid that.

Naww, that's pretty much just Eliezer. He has a theory about how you have to aim low when explaining stuff: http://lesswrong.com/lw/kh/explainers_shoot_high_aim_low/

If you want to write some new FAQ questions and answers to account for what you're describing, I'll definitely take a look at them!