Related, has anyone compiled a list of “Rationalist Wisdom”? Like a bunch of sayings that distill Rationalism down that we can point newbs to?
Writing is a skill; you can’t simply decide to do it and automatically do it well, even if you believe it is an important thing to do. I hope that in future, some people with sufficiently high writing skills will become rationalists, and one of them will prioritize making simple accessible rationality materials for beginners.
More precisely, writing is more than one skill. I mean, Eliezer definitely is good at writing—the success of HPMoR is an evidence for that—and yet it’s his Sequences that people complain about. Seemingly, “good at blogging” and “good at writing fiction” doesn’t imply “good at writing textbooks for beginners”. So it’s the person good at writing textbooks for beginners we are waiting for, to join the rationality community and produce the textbooks.
Writing is a skill; you can’t simply decide to do it and automatically do it well, even if you believe it is an important thing to do. I hope that in future, some people with sufficiently high writing skills will become rationalists, and one of them will prioritize making simple accessible rationality materials for beginners.
More precisely, writing is more than one skill. I mean, Eliezer definitely is good at writing—the success of HPMoR is an evidence for that—and yet it’s his Sequences that people complain about. Seemingly, “good at blogging” and “good at writing fiction” doesn’t imply “good at writing textbooks for beginners”. So it’s the person good at writing textbooks for beginners we are waiting for, to join the rationality community and produce the textbooks.