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David_Gerard comments on [Altruist Support] How to determine your utility function - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: David_Gerard 01 May 2011 11:05:40AM -1 points [-]

It's experience, not cargo culting. There is a difference.

What brings new editors to a wiki is the wiki, and contributing to it, being personally useful to them. Then the wiki process of collaborative editing kicks in.

(e.g. I edit it to create pages I find personally useful to link to concerning LW concepts, for example. I expect others to have other uses.)