The Importance of Education and Dealing with Newcomers

Any community which ever adds new people will need to either routinely teach the new and (to established members) blindingly obvious information to those who genuinely haven’t heard it before, or accept that over time community members will only know the simplest basics by accident of osmosis or selection bias. There isn’t another way out of that. You don’t get to stop doing it. If you have a vibrant and popular group full of people really interested in the subject of the group, and you run it for ten years straight, you will still sometimes run across people who have only fuzzy and incorrect ideas about the subject dauntless you are making an active effort to make Something Which Is Not That happen.

Or in other words; I have run into people at Effective Altruism meetups who were aghast at the idea of putting a dollar price on a [...]

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First published:
November 29th, 2023

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ydmctK2qLyrR9Xztd/the-101-space-you-will-always-have-with-you

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.