TBF I see “sequence” as more of a brand thing. “The sequences” are a specific work of literature at this point. But I suppose it is not necessary to call more series of posts here that way too.
Yeah I was referring to e.g. my own … things that I call “series” and everyone else calls “sequences”.
To be clear, “brand thing” is fine! It’s one of those emotive conjugation things: “I have playful branding and in-jokes, you have pointless jargon for in-group signaling”.
Lesswrong people using “sequence” is not really any different from twitter people using “tweet” and “thread”, or facebook people using “vaguebooking”, etc. You’re trading off a learning curve for newcomers for … playful fun and community! And playful fun and community are worth more than zero. So yeah, I personally opt out of “sequence” and many other unnecessary lesswrong-isms / SF-Bay-area-isms, but I don’t particularly hold it against other people for choosing differently.
TBF I see “sequence” as more of a brand thing. “The sequences” are a specific work of literature at this point. But I suppose it is not necessary to call more series of posts here that way too.
Yeah I was referring to e.g. my own … things that I call “series” and everyone else calls “sequences”.
To be clear, “brand thing” is fine! It’s one of those emotive conjugation things: “I have playful branding and in-jokes, you have pointless jargon for in-group signaling”.
Lesswrong people using “sequence” is not really any different from twitter people using “tweet” and “thread”, or facebook people using “vaguebooking”, etc. You’re trading off a learning curve for newcomers for … playful fun and community! And playful fun and community are worth more than zero. So yeah, I personally opt out of “sequence” and many other unnecessary lesswrong-isms / SF-Bay-area-isms, but I don’t particularly hold it against other people for choosing differently.