One thing that could help new users dive into Less Wrong would be to make some reading recommendations based on reading difficulty. (I'm including some things not hosted on LessWrong.com when they're very LessWrong-ish and written by leading LessWrong authors.) For example:
For everyone
- Yudkowsky, Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
- Yudkowsky, Twelve Virtues of Rationality
- Yvain, The Worst Argument in the World
- Yudkowsky, Reductionism
- Lukeprog, How to Beat Procrastination
For those with some math and statistics
- Yudkowsky, Technical Explanation of Technical Explanation
- Yudkowsky, Timeless Causality
- Yudkowsky, Bell's Theorem
For mathgods
Now, I ask: What are some of your favorite articles in each of these categories?
The analogue is clever and clear, however I don't think it carries the same cultural connotations. 強くなりたい is a somewhat commonly expressed phrase, whereas 嬉しくなりたい sounds just as odd in Japanese as it does in English.
Perhaps Nancy meant that the title stretches the apropos use of Japanese in evincing the message of an essay written in English.
I meant that I wouldn't be nearly as likely to look at an article with a Japanese title (especially as someone new to LW who wouldn't know to expect good stuff from Alicorn) as an article with a title in English which gave me something specific to be interested in.