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“Recursions on LessOnline 2025” by Error


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Meta: Last year I wrote a retrospective of the first

LessOnline. This year, several people told me that they’d read
it and found it helpful/interesting/entertaining, so I figure I’ll do it
again. It is once again later and longer than I wished. I’m going to try
not to repeat myself unnecessarily, so the previous post may still be of
interest.

Also I don’t know what tags belong on LO-related posts. Mods please

advise if you happen to see this.

Ideas bouncing freely, feeling less alone

Comfortably confused, in a space that feels like home

-- Fooming Shoggoths, Right Here

At the first iteration of LessOnline -- last year, 2024 -- I didn't

know, when I left home, if it would be worth it. I didn’t know the city,
I didn’t know the venue, I didn’t know the people as any more than
bylines on essays. [...]


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Outline:

(03:06) Events

(07:28) Quiethaven

(08:14) Writehaven

(09:18) Fooming Shoggoth

(11:28) Miscellaneous observations

(12:47) Some things I did...and didn't do

(18:42) Abort Summer Camp

(21:46) Reasons

(26:33) Manifest

(29:00) Personal Minutia

(30:02) The Complaints Romantic Solid

(32:00) Last Thoughts

The original text contained 15 footnotes which were omitted from this narration.

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First published:

July 29th, 2025

Source:

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/GpwH2hvKdn9LBuz9A/recursions-on-lessonline-2025

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