Good_Burning_Plastic comments on Lesswrong 2016 Survey - Less Wrong

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Comment author: gjm 27 March 2016 07:06:31PM 0 points [-]

Hence "have been". Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but usually what "X diaspora" means is "people who have been X but have now moved elsewhere".

Comment author: Good_Burning_Plastic 27 March 2016 11:06:48PM 2 points [-]

Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but usually what "X diaspora" means is "people who have been X but have now moved elsewhere".

Or have ancestors from X.

I would probably consider a regular SSC commenter to be part of the LW diaspora even if they have never personally been a regular LW commenter. (Not so sure about InIn, as AFAICT Gleb Tsipursky hadn't been a LW regular before founding it.)

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