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Viliam_Bur comments on Four things every community should do - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Viliam_Bur 22 October 2014 06:39:40PM *  4 points [-]

The canon could be a set of books written outside of the community. For example "Thinking, Fast and Slow" would be one of the books in LW canon.

If we had enough books to cover most of the Sequences, we could tell people to read those books instead of reading the Sequences. It would be more pages, but on the other hand it would sound more acceptable to many people.

Maybe even better would be the set of books, plus a small "micro Sequence" explaining how that all fits together for us. To overcome compartmentalization and "guessing the teacher's password"; to explain in near mode that we are supposed to use that stuff, not only debate it. Also a few topics that we didn't find in any book, or for which reading the whole book would be an overkill.