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Normal_Anomaly comments on New Less Wrong Feature: Rerunning The Sequences - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Normal_Anomaly 11 April 2011 07:15:01PM 1 point [-]

How do you two, and the rest of the community, feel about waiting a while for the [exercises] to get going and doing the two projects concurrently? A poll follows.

Comment author: Normal_Anomaly 11 April 2011 07:15:59PM 16 points [-]

Vote up to go ahead and let the exercises be posted on their own time.

Comment author: jimrandomh 11 April 2011 08:28:38PM 4 points [-]

I would favor prioritizing writing exercises for recent or upcoming reposts, and including any exercises written so far in the reposts. But tying the two projects together explicitly is courting failure; a delay in one should not delay the other.

Comment author: Cyan 11 April 2011 07:23:45PM 7 points [-]

I have misgivings about waiting "a while". I suggest proposing a specific timeline.

Comment author: Raemon 11 April 2011 08:22:23PM 2 points [-]

This. If "a while" is more than a few weeks, then no.

Comment author: Alexandros 11 April 2011 09:06:16PM 2 points [-]

If a while is until, say, May 1st, I would favour holding off. But it needs to be something concrete, and measured in weeks, not months.

Comment author: Unnamed 11 April 2011 10:03:36PM 1 point [-]

I'd prefer to get started, unless there is some clear and specific benefit to waiting which you can point to. These posts are going to come out gradually over the next 23 months, so there will be plenty of time to prepare most of the exercises. It looks like the earliest post for which an exercise is in-the-making is Making Beliefs Pay Rent (in Anticipated Experiences), which we're scheduled to get to in early June.

Coordination doesn't have to be perfect for the projects to benefit each other. If an exercise gets completed before the rerun post has been made then the post can still link to it, and if the exercise is completed a few weeks after the rerun post then it still gets the advantage of addressing a topic that's relatively fresh in people's minds.

Comment author: Normal_Anomaly 12 April 2011 12:23:31AM 0 points [-]

Okay, it looks so far like opinion favors just doing the reposts and letting the exercises take care of themselves. That's fine by me. Will the reposts be in chronological order, and if not, can you tell me what the first five or so are? I'm taking this repost project as an excuse to pick up the pace on the exercises.

Comment author: Unnamed 12 April 2011 01:12:24AM 0 points [-]

Yep, chronological order (the same order as here).

Comment author: Normal_Anomaly 11 April 2011 07:15:36PM 1 point [-]

Vote up to wait and do this concurrently with the exercises.