I tend to think we rationalists overuse ‘awesome’. I also think we use it to show other rationalists we’re rationalists, but to outsiders who are older than college-age it probably comes across as silly.
Okay, “How to Make Your Less Wrong Meetup Terrific”?
Eh, no. But I actually didn’t get the feeling that ‘successful’ suffers from the problem you pointed out.
I tend to think we rationalists overuse ‘awesome’. I also think we use it to show other rationalists we’re rationalists, but to outsiders who are older than college-age it probably comes across as silly.
Okay, “How to Make Your Less Wrong Meetup Terrific”?
Eh, no. But I actually didn’t get the feeling that ‘successful’ suffers from the problem you pointed out.