Well, I’ve been systematically (if desultorily) reading all of LW from the beginning. So I got to your comment and, given the local norm that it’s just fine to respond to a comment or post from years ago, responded to it. I presume bcoburn saw my comment in “Recent Comments”, went to your original and felt like responding too.
Yep! Things to read while waiting for Tomcat to finish restarting … if I’m going to use the Internet as a television, I want at least to be watching something good.
I got through the Sequences, and it occurred to me that I didn’t really understand the history of the culture of LessWrong, let alone the history of the history. So I thought reading the lot would be a nice way to approximate that. And I’m finding some fantastic posts I would never have seen without doing this.
Interesting. Btw, why did my old comment suddenly get two replies?
Well, I’ve been systematically (if desultorily) reading all of LW from the beginning. So I got to your comment and, given the local norm that it’s just fine to respond to a comment or post from years ago, responded to it. I presume bcoburn saw my comment in “Recent Comments”, went to your original and felt like responding too.
Is that part of what you have referred to as “internet as television”, David?
Yep! Things to read while waiting for Tomcat to finish restarting … if I’m going to use the Internet as a television, I want at least to be watching something good.
I got through the Sequences, and it occurred to me that I didn’t really understand the history of the culture of LessWrong, let alone the history of the history. So I thought reading the lot would be a nice way to approximate that. And I’m finding some fantastic posts I would never have seen without doing this.
This is, indeed, exactly what happened.
I’m eagerly awaiting years-later responses to my own early comments :-D
waves
:-)
I am doing the same right now, BTW.