Brillyant comments on Open Thread, May 5 - 11, 2014 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Brillyant 07 May 2014 06:42:49PM 1 point [-]

Hm. I think you have a much higher level of sophistication in your FB friend group. I get a lot of Tea Party quotes and pictures of peoples' dinner.

Comment author: Kawoomba 07 May 2014 06:52:00PM 11 points [-]

It's mostly that Eliezer has taken to disseminating his current work via open Facebook discussions. I can see how that choice makes sense, from his position, but it's still sad for the identity-paranoid and the nostalgic remnants still roaming these forgotten halls. Did I have a purpose once? It's been so long.

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 08 May 2014 12:07:37AM 11 points [-]

Also, it's much harder (impossible?) to find older discussions on FB.

Comment author: mare-of-night 08 May 2014 01:50:29PM 3 points [-]

And perhaps harder to grow, at least through the usual means - the Facebook discussions wouldn't show up on Google searches (or at least not highly ranked, I think), and it's a less convenient format to link someone to for an explanation of a concept.

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 15 May 2014 04:12:48PM 0 points [-]

It turns out that while there may be no good way to use Facebook to find old discussions on Facebook, I used google and found an old Facebook post.