There’s an atheist named Greta Christina who for a while posted a short message to her blog about atheism, and encouraged all of her readers to copy and paste it to their Twitter and Facebook accounts, to spread the meme. Basically, a 140-character Talking Points Memo.
That might be a good idea here. I’ll be if we had one central thread of daily (or weekly) 140-character rationality ‘thoughts of the day’, we could get a lot of Less Wrongers to reliably spread the same message on their Facebook and Twitter accounts.
Probably easiest would be to have somebody launch a new Twitter feed and regularly post these things, and then other Less Wrongers could plan on re-tweeting or Facebooking them.
There’s an atheist named Greta Christina who for a while posted a short message to her blog about atheism, and encouraged all of her readers to copy and paste it to their Twitter and Facebook accounts, to spread the meme. Basically, a 140-character Talking Points Memo.
That might be a good idea here. I’ll be if we had one central thread of daily (or weekly) 140-character rationality ‘thoughts of the day’, we could get a lot of Less Wrongers to reliably spread the same message on their Facebook and Twitter accounts.
Probably easiest would be to have somebody launch a new Twitter feed and regularly post these things, and then other Less Wrongers could plan on re-tweeting or Facebooking them.
I can make that. The only thing I don’t know is what account name to use.
Twitter has a 15-character limit, suggestions welcome.
Rationalitweet
I slept on it, and this was the exact idea I came up with! Account created. If others want to help maintain it, pm me.
http://twitter.com/#!/Rationalitweet
Bayesian
this one’s taken: https://twitter.com/bayesian
Why not just LessWrong?
I’d be in favor of doing it weekly—when you’re trying to sound profound and insightful Quality >> Quantity.
I think a good rule for these is would be to only post one suggestion per comment so that up/downvoting is more precise.
I think this is a great idea. Just post the tweet with the most upvotes in the thread?