20-somethings play a valuable ecological role in Twitter communities IMO: Discovering ideas/content for the first time, which older members will view as "classics", and enthusiastically sharing. Used to mess w/ my head ("others probably know this") but now I see it as a positive
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haha I've had the experience many times now but our exchange on the Feynman essay did trigger the tweet. Despite finding the essay in a list of classics, I still just earnestly posted to Twitter like "look what I just found!" and it seemed like you still appreciated the resurface
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Can I just say that having a freshman dormmate have a conversation with the Mike-of-Mike-&-Ike about Richard Feynman on Twitter is literally a nerd’s dream come true for me?
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Also, the funny thing about quality: most things are worth reading either 0 times (the great majority) or 100 times, IMO. Very few things are worth reading exactly once.
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Right! That is why I was very excited about
@posobin's HN classics site (plugging again: http://posobin.com/hn_classics/ ). I remember wanting a classic's feed while reading the "Let's ban new books" section of this@gwern essay https://www.gwern.net/Culture-is-not-about-Esthetics#lets-ban-new-books …
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Michael’s response to my tweet earlierhttps://twitter.com/michael_nielsen/status/1083807621876858880?s=21 …
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