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This article is really good. The title isn't, but I think it enhanced my overall experience by making me go in with low expectations. Nice work!
Not exactly what I was going for, but I'm glad to see it had a net positive effect. Incidentally, what do you think was wrong with the title, and what would you have called this article? I originally had it titled "what living abroad can teach a rationalist", something descriptive, but I thought this might catch people's attention. I struggle with coming up with good titles for papers and sections.
I thought it was going to be about something like this.
Huh, please no; "... can teach you" would be fine.
Thanks for the advice. Incidentally, does anyone know what the policy is for cross-posting things you write for LW? I looked but couldn't find anything. I have a personal blog where this essay would be at home, and I'd like to cross-post so that the blog can function as a kind of resume and repository for my writing.
My sense of the norms is that cross-posting is fine. Examples of cross-posting: one, two, three; discussions where cross-posting is mentioned favorably: one, two.
Cross-posting would be UNFORGIVEABLE.
No, I lie, I don't even know why that would be a problem.
I am kind-of bothered when there are two different comment threads about the same article in two different places, but I think this is a pet peeve of mine shared by hardly anyone else.
I'm not crazy about the same post at multiple locations because if I'm interested in the discussion, I have to follow it in two places.
I don't know what I would have called the article, but generally I don't think using the word "sane" is optimal. I honestly thought this might be something to do with culture wars/reactionary politics at first glance.
The title lead me to expect an article about seeing through peoples' foreignness for the person they really are. Going from thinking "they do things in that silly manner because their culture has mislead him and made them insane," to understanding that they've probably never had the chance to question their culture's ways and they would if you'd give them one.
As an exploration, it would have been of great value to me and, I believe, to the rest of the lesswrong community. We are strange. At some point we're going to have to start wearing that on our sleeves to be true to ourselves, but we need outsiders to be able to see through our strange practices, to see that we're not a big crazy cult. If we knew what we'd have to do to look past others' foreignisms, we'd be better equipped to lead them to do the same for us.
P.S. Please write this article.