hydkyll comments on Request: Sequences book reading group - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Gondolinian 22 February 2015 12:19:27PM *  4 points [-]

I think this is a good idea and I anticipate that it would significantly help me, for one, with reading the Sequences. I do however see a potential problem with implementation:

I would recommend one new post per day, going in order of the book. I recommend re-posting the entire article to LW, including any edits or additions that are new in the book.

That would be a lot of posts. If we're talking about making a new post in Discussion everyday, that would likely drown-out most other threads. It would be even worse in Main. (ETA: I think I should have written "dilute" instead of "drown-out." Going by a rough estimate of the current rate of Discussion posts, the proposed series would probably make up only a quarter of Discussion, though that's still a significant change.)

I could, of course, be misunderstanding something, in which case I apologize.

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Comment author: hydkyll 22 February 2015 02:39:21PM *  2 points [-]

That would be a lot of posts. If we're talking about making a new post in Discussion everyday, that would likely drown-out most other threads. It would be even worse in Main.

One could start a new subreddit for this reading group. Something like reddit.com/r/LWreadinggroup. But that would defeat the purpose of reviving lesswrong.com.

Comment author: Gondolinian 22 February 2015 02:48:57PM 3 points [-]

I think I phrased "drown-out most other threads" too strongly.

Just from eyeballing the Newest Submissions page in Discussion, I estimate there are an average of ~3 new threads per day, so a new post everyday probably wouldn't "drown-out" the other threads, but still, a 33% dilution is a 33% dilution. It's quite possible that it's a trade-off worth making, but it's still a trade-off that I think we should be aware of.

Comment author: NemkeKira 22 February 2015 07:57:58PM 3 points [-]

Honestly, as someone new, I think it would be a good trade off. I heard about LW after HPMOR, and I know most people who recommended me HPMOR got intimidated by the amount of backlog they needed to do.

That is not a problem for me, but as I said in a different comment, I enjoy discussion about the things I am currently reading.

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