The style of your blog is very very much at odds with the style of Less Wrong. I would never submit anything here that classified as a cohesive set what ‘liberals’ think, and then attacked that classification. Writing here should map more to statistical estimation and modeling, where every word and claim is scrutinized, thoughtful, and attempts to avoid invoking needless emotion. That last point is harder to nail down. It is of course possible to have an excitable tone that runs orthogonal to the strict argument, but it’s pretty hard to do right.
I do, sometimes, write more in line with the tone you choose on my personal blog, but I wouldn’t ever submit it here. And as I write more and think more, I’ve become increasingly convinced it’s not the best way to think. Trying to be persuasive, methodological, and charitable, is more fun since it’s much more challenging.
You’d have better luck in the reactosphere, which probably gets more readers than LW anyway.
But, as I explained in the post I published yesterday about what I would like to do with my blog, I don’t want it to become an echo chamber. So I don’t just want to increase the number of people, I also want to attract intelligent people. I’ll probably just post here only things which deal with evidence and I will tone down the language so as not to turn off people. That being said, I think the argument in my piece on hate crimes was perfectly sound and did provide evidence, notwithstanding the abrasive language.
Yeah that’s totally cool. LW style is different though. Not necessarily in a good way, and this difference might even be why it’s less popular than other sites these days. But it’s different in that LW doesn’t, as far as I have observed, want lots of people from different sides. It wants an almost algorithmic approach to reality, where more colorful language is viewed as disrupting the truth by inflaming tribal parts of your brain.
Everything you’re saying is totally reasonable for someone who doesn’t understand the very very specific thing LW is trying to accomplish, and the idiosyncratic rules of engagement for this site.
Personally I don’t come here as often as other sites in part due to these rules, at times, feeling stringent shrug
The style of your blog is very very much at odds with the style of Less Wrong. I would never submit anything here that classified as a cohesive set what ‘liberals’ think, and then attacked that classification. Writing here should map more to statistical estimation and modeling, where every word and claim is scrutinized, thoughtful, and attempts to avoid invoking needless emotion. That last point is harder to nail down. It is of course possible to have an excitable tone that runs orthogonal to the strict argument, but it’s pretty hard to do right.
I do, sometimes, write more in line with the tone you choose on my personal blog, but I wouldn’t ever submit it here. And as I write more and think more, I’ve become increasingly convinced it’s not the best way to think. Trying to be persuasive, methodological, and charitable, is more fun since it’s much more challenging.
You’d have better luck in the reactosphere, which probably gets more readers than LW anyway.
But, as I explained in the post I published yesterday about what I would like to do with my blog, I don’t want it to become an echo chamber. So I don’t just want to increase the number of people, I also want to attract intelligent people. I’ll probably just post here only things which deal with evidence and I will tone down the language so as not to turn off people. That being said, I think the argument in my piece on hate crimes was perfectly sound and did provide evidence, notwithstanding the abrasive language.
Yeah that’s totally cool. LW style is different though. Not necessarily in a good way, and this difference might even be why it’s less popular than other sites these days. But it’s different in that LW doesn’t, as far as I have observed, want lots of people from different sides. It wants an almost algorithmic approach to reality, where more colorful language is viewed as disrupting the truth by inflaming tribal parts of your brain.
Everything you’re saying is totally reasonable for someone who doesn’t understand the very very specific thing LW is trying to accomplish, and the idiosyncratic rules of engagement for this site.
Personally I don’t come here as often as other sites in part due to these rules, at times, feeling stringent shrug
Colorful language is perfectly fine. It’s refusing to reason and to support one’s arguments with evidence that is frowned upon.
But of course I have done nothing of the sort.
Banish the thought.