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Comment author: John_Maxwell_IV 11 June 2012 10:24:17PM 0 points [-]

I'm confused; is your criticism that posts after the sequences failed to introduce new ideas the way the sequences did or didn't stick in the community's collective memory?

Comment author: David_Gerard 11 June 2012 10:36:22PM 1 point [-]

They introduced new ideas and failed to stick in the community memory. Why is not clear. (I could easily come up with just-so stories to retrospectively explain it, of course.)

Comment author: John_Maxwell_IV 11 June 2012 10:38:27PM *  2 points [-]

One just-so story: The sequences are mentioned everywhere as The Way To Read Less Wrong; random archive posts are not. Therefore a larger fraction of LW has read the sequences.

Comment author: David_Gerard 12 June 2012 06:49:28AM 1 point [-]

Yeah, that's the one that occurred to me too. The site is stuck in 2008. Even Eliezer doesn't necessarily think the stuff he wrote word for word there any more.

Comment author: Fhyve 12 June 2012 06:38:23AM 1 point [-]

Also the sequences are permalinked, one click away from the front page.

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