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shminux comments on Open Thread: What are your important insights or aha! moments? - Less Wrong Discussion

16 Post author: Emile 09 November 2014 10:56PM

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Comment author: shminux 10 November 2014 06:05:21AM 0 points [-]

I feel affinity to LW, but I do not consider myself a LWer.

Comment author: Lumifer 10 November 2014 06:38:08AM 1 point [-]

Well, it's a matter of word usage. I think of "in-group" as a group you identify yourself with, by definition. If someone comes up to you and asks whether you belong to group X, if you're not willing to answer "Sure!", that's not your in-group.

Of course the relationship of an individual to a group is more complicated than a single bit of belong / do-not-belong and one can draw the in-group boundary at different levels of affiliation.