Having skimmed this post and the Less Wrong Slack wiki page, I had to really look to figure out what my Next Action for signing up to the Slack channel would be (I infer that it is to PM you my email address). Consider adding that information as a sentence in bold at the top of this page and/or the wiki page?
This is awesome, thanks for doing this!
Having participated on this chat, one of the key advantages of it compared to the IRC is that there are multiple channels. So if I want to talk about Human Relationships and Eliot wants to talk about Lifehacks our conversations don't interfere with each other.
This also greatly increases the signal to noise ratio. If a channel is uninteresting to you, then you don't need to follow it.
I haven't tried it, but this looks like it could be useful for that project: https://github.com/evanyeung/terminal-slack
This is a short post to say that I have started and am managing a Slack channel for lesswrong.
Slack has only an email-invite option which means that I need an email address for anyone who wants to join. Send me a PM with your email address if you are interested in joining.
There is a web interface and a mobile app that is better than google hangouts.
If you are interested in joining; consider this one requirement:
To be clear; This means (including but not limited to);
Edit - first week of October: http://lesswrong.com/r/discussion/lw/mub/open_thread_oct_5_oct_11_2015/csr3
Edit - 3rd week in october 2015: http://lesswrong.com/r/discussion/lw/mwt/open_thread_oct_26_nov_01_2015/cuq5
Edit - 3rd week in november 2015 http://lesswrong.com/r/discussion/lw/mzz/open_thread_nov_23_nov_29_2015/cwyl