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9 Post author: Alexandros 12 March 2011 08:00PM

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Comment author: lukeprog 12 March 2011 09:29:14PM *  5 points [-]

There's an atheist named Greta Christina who for a while posted a short message to her blog about atheism, and encouraged all of her readers to copy and paste it to their Twitter and Facebook accounts, to spread the meme. Basically, a 140-character Talking Points Memo.

That might be a good idea here. I'll be if we had one central thread of daily (or weekly) 140-character rationality 'thoughts of the day', we could get a lot of Less Wrongers to reliably spread the same message on their Facebook and Twitter accounts.

Probably easiest would be to have somebody launch a new Twitter feed and regularly post these things, and then other Less Wrongers could plan on re-tweeting or Facebooking them.

Comment author: Alexandros 12 March 2011 09:52:47PM 1 point [-]

I can make that. The only thing I don't know is what account name to use.

Twitter has a 15-character limit, suggestions welcome.

Comment author: atucker 13 March 2011 02:31:54AM 3 points [-]

Rationalitweet

Comment author: Alexandros 13 March 2011 07:57:40AM 2 points [-]

I slept on it, and this was the exact idea I came up with! Account created. If others want to help maintain it, pm me.

http://twitter.com/#!/Rationalitweet

Comment author: Dorikka 13 March 2011 04:14:37AM 0 points [-]

Bayesian

Comment author: Alexandros 13 March 2011 07:52:07AM 0 points [-]
Comment author: atucker 13 March 2011 10:41:37PM 0 points [-]

I'd be in favor of doing it weekly -- when you're trying to sound profound and insightful Quality >> Quantity.

I think a good rule for these is would be to only post one suggestion per comment so that up/downvoting is more precise.