This seems to be the best one for my purposes. I’ll be referencing the metaphor in an upcoming top level post, and I wanted a) to be able to familiarize people with the concept, b) do so in a way that maximized the chance that a new reader perusing Less Wrong would hyperlink their way to important Less Wrong concepts and fall in love with the site.
(I’m a little on the fence about what I think about hyperlinks. I think they’re annoying if overused and in this case it’s probably not strictly necessary, but it did occur to me that, frustrating as they were, the massive hyperlink chain that I fell into was important to plunging me into the site)
Manfred’s post was the one I found that seemed close but not quite right. Compared to Hariants, I think it’s the best one to use for purpose B.
Orson Scott Card actually wrote quite a fun story that basically predicted the wikipedia effect in 1989. And it inspired his character to make a major scientific breakthrough, so hey, maybe he was right about that too. Hyperlink away, I say!
This seems to be the best one for my purposes. I’ll be referencing the metaphor in an upcoming top level post, and I wanted a) to be able to familiarize people with the concept, b) do so in a way that maximized the chance that a new reader perusing Less Wrong would hyperlink their way to important Less Wrong concepts and fall in love with the site.
(I’m a little on the fence about what I think about hyperlinks. I think they’re annoying if overused and in this case it’s probably not strictly necessary, but it did occur to me that, frustrating as they were, the massive hyperlink chain that I fell into was important to plunging me into the site)
Manfred’s post was the one I found that seemed close but not quite right. Compared to Hariants, I think it’s the best one to use for purpose B.
Orson Scott Card actually wrote quite a fun story that basically predicted the wikipedia effect in 1989. And it inspired his character to make a major scientific breakthrough, so hey, maybe he was right about that too. Hyperlink away, I say!