Attendees will introduce themselves with the username they use online.
I wish I could do this, but I quickly learned not to. If you use a pseudonym, then this only makes sense if you’re likely to be recognized by your pseudonym, which means only the A-list is famous to do this.
I don’t think it’s (mostly) a question of fame, I think whether it works is a question of how weird/hard to pronounce it is, how hard you stick to it, and the local norms. “Screwtape” works passably well for me, but I also don’t use it in the more ~white collar professional circles.
. . . Actually, I should add clothing to this list.
Ironically, meeting you guys at Lightcone is the one place where I felt like I could use my pseudonym. It’s all other rationality meetups that it’s a problem.
I wish I could do this, but I quickly learned not to. If you use a pseudonym, then this only makes sense if you’re likely to be recognized by your pseudonym, which means only the A-list is famous to do this.
I don’t think it’s (mostly) a question of fame, I think whether it works is a question of how weird/hard to pronounce it is, how hard you stick to it, and the local norms. “Screwtape” works passably well for me, but I also don’t use it in the more ~white collar professional circles.
. . . Actually, I should add clothing to this list.
I think in my case issue was I just totally didn’t know how to pronounce lsuser.
I currently believe it’s el-es-user, as in LSuser. Is that right?
Yup!
It might help if you spelled it as LSuser. (I think you can change that in the settings).
I often spell it Lsusr because “lsusr” looks too similar to “Isusr” in certain fonts.
This whole time I thought it started with a capital
I. TIL.Ironically, meeting you guys at Lightcone is the one place where I felt like I could use my pseudonym. It’s all other rationality meetups that it’s a problem.
I guess it also depends on how obsessively the others present scroll lesswrong… I would definitely appreciate knowing you are who you are if I met you
I’d like to know who you are too, if we ever meet IRL.
Fortunately, this first mover problem should be resolved by my username being my actual name :)