Hi, I’m Rixie, and I read this fan fic called Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, by lesswrong, so I decided to check out Lesswrong.com. It is totally different from what I thought it would be, but it’s interesting and I like it. And right now I’m reading the post below mine, and wow, my comment sounds all shallow now . . .
Hi Rixie! Don’t worry! Lots of people came to LessWrong after reading HPMoR (myself included). I know it can be intimidating here at first, but well worth the effort, I think.
You might also be interested in Three Worlds Collide. It’s another fiction by the same guy who wrote HPMoR, and a bunch of the Sequence posts here.
If you have any questions about anything, feel free to PM me!
It means it has 0 replies. The way the comments work is that the one above is the “parent” and the one’s below are “children”. Sometimes you see people using terminology such as “grand-parent” and “great grand-parent” to refer to posts further above.
Means no one replied to the comment. Normally this is implicit in the number of comments nested under it, but since those aren’t shown when comments are downvoted below the threshold, the site provides the number of child comments as a convenience.
Hi, I’m Rixie, and I read this fan fic called Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, by lesswrong, so I decided to check out Lesswrong.com. It is totally different from what I thought it would be, but it’s interesting and I like it. And right now I’m reading the post below mine, and wow, my comment sounds all shallow now . . .
What did you think it would be like?
I thought it would be more like hpmor.com, but for the authour.
Little did I know . . .
Hi Rixie! Don’t worry! Lots of people came to LessWrong after reading HPMoR (myself included). I know it can be intimidating here at first, but well worth the effort, I think.
You might also be interested in Three Worlds Collide. It’s another fiction by the same guy who wrote HPMoR, and a bunch of the Sequence posts here.
If you have any questions about anything, feel free to PM me!
And, question: What does 0 children mean? It’s on the comments which were down-voted a lot and not shown.
It means it has 0 replies. The way the comments work is that the one above is the “parent” and the one’s below are “children”. Sometimes you see people using terminology such as “grand-parent” and “great grand-parent” to refer to posts further above.
Means no one replied to the comment. Normally this is implicit in the number of comments nested under it, but since those aren’t shown when comments are downvoted below the threshold, the site provides the number of child comments as a convenience.
If the downvoted comment had, e.g. 5 total replies to it, it would say “5 children”.