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I am considering this and am wondering if it would be worth it to do a separate Less Wrong read through or if I should just go along with the Redditors. Any thoughts?
Go along with redditors, infect them with rationality and x-risk memes. That's worth creating a reddit account if you don't have one already.
PSA: If someone wrote up a LW article summarizing interesting results from the psychology of contamination I'd totally upvote it at least once. On a related note LW should totally all get baptized before they make a desperate effort to become better rationalists! Or at least take a very serious bath. (ETA: E.g. Nick Tarleton showed me a study about how hand-washing changes people's risk aversion/seeking. As someone who takes a totally insane number of baths this wouldn't surprise me.)
The record of Less Wrong reading groups is pretty poor.
l'd like a separate Less Wrong readthrough because I don't have a Reddit account and don't want to acquire one for the sole purpose of the readthrough (because then I'll comment on Reddit, and I have quite enough time-wasting things to do on the Internet already :) ).
It is posted to /r/cogsci and /r/math, both good communities for their fields (the average commenter seems to be at least at a junior's level by my own subjective judgment) . Due to the the drop off effect experienced in people trying to lose weight, watch open source lectures (look at the total views from beginning to end in this Harvard course for instance http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBdfcR-8hEY), or generally do things that aren't easy I expect to see high quality redditors commenting rather than the memes common on the front page.
I'll be joining if that helps your decision, my username there is the same as it is here.