The quoted section doesn’t seem to claim that oldbies are going to other sites, and forgetting what they’ve learnt here; but rather that newbies@ are leaving and using lesswrong terminology; possibly without even fully understanding it.
@ (who haven’t actually internalised many of the concepts yet)
Before I started reading and participating in LessWrong myself, I got the idea from some of its apparent fans that it was way weirder than it actually turned out to be.
(It still has its weirdy bits, but they feel more like local colour now.)
The quoted section doesn’t seem to claim that oldbies are going to other sites, and forgetting what they’ve learnt here; but rather that newbies@ are leaving and using lesswrong terminology; possibly without even fully understanding it.
@ (who haven’t actually internalised many of the concepts yet)
Before I started reading and participating in LessWrong myself, I got the idea from some of its apparent fans that it was way weirder than it actually turned out to be.
(It still has its weirdy bits, but they feel more like local colour now.)