Can someone post an article on Less Wrong?

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Can someone post an article on Less Wrong?

Postby DanielLC on 2011-08-08T22:42:00

Less Wrong is dedicated to becoming rational. Unsurprisingly, this tends to lead to Consequentialist ethical reasoning. As such, I think it would be a good idea to post an article about Felicifia on there. I'm not very good at writing. Can someone else do it? If you don't have an account that you can post articles with, I'd be happy to post it for you.
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Re: Can someone post an article on Less Wrong?

Postby Arepo on 2011-08-09T14:07:00

I signed up for LW yesterday just to ask about that maths video I also asked about in the general forum here. I haven't really sussed out the format, though. Is the idea that anyone above 2 karma can post, and you get a constant flow of pieces that can presumably be filtered but that default to chronological order? Or are there more divisions between features of the site than I realise?

The main thing I'm not clear about is how to get 2 karma in the first place...
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Re: Can someone post an article on Less Wrong?

Postby DanielLC on 2011-08-09T17:42:00

You can post comments regardless of karma, you can post on the discussion section with 2 karma, and you can post on the main site with 20 karma. When someone upvotes a comment or a discussion article you get one karma. When someone upvotes a main article you get 10. The reverse applies if they downvote.

Just look through the sequences and add comments and you should be able to get 2 karma without too much of a problem.
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Re: Can someone post an article on Less Wrong?

Postby Brian Tomasik on 2011-08-14T20:27:00

Thanks, guys! LessWrong is a great forum. These days, I only have time to keep up with one (Felicifia), but if I had time for a second, it would be LessWrong.
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Re: Can someone post an article on Less Wrong?

Postby CosmicPariah on 2012-04-12T07:08:00

I love that site and I agree that it would be a good place to post; there are many utilitarians and many easy converts there.

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Re: Can someone post an article on Less Wrong?

Postby DanielLC on 2012-04-12T16:40:00

I actually went ahead and posted it myself a while ago after nobody else did. I guess I probably should have mentioned that on here.
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Re: Can someone post an article on Less Wrong?

Postby Brian Tomasik on 2012-04-15T07:20:00

DanielLC wrote:I actually went ahead and posted it myself

If you want something done, you have to do it yourself. :) Thanks, DanielLC.
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Re: Can someone post an article on Less Wrong?

Postby Arepo on 2012-04-16T10:32:00

Short but sweet - probably a good way to go. It still has a typo in the title, though - 'Felicifa'.
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Re: Can someone post an article on Less Wrong?

Postby DanielLC on 2012-04-16T17:15:00

Fixed.

That wasn't the first time I misspelled a title. Well, it might have been, but it wasn't the only time.
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