The quick post is has a casual style, the effortpost is inscrutably formal
Since you mentioned him earlier, this is something Scott Alexander manages to avoid with his effort post (not to say that he doesn’t put effort into all his posts). He can write 30k words of careful reasoning on the Miracle of Fatima and yet reading it doesn’t feel like engaging with a dense, wordy academic paper.
Since you mentioned him earlier, this is something Scott Alexander manages to avoid with his effort post (not to say that he doesn’t put effort into all his posts). He can write 30k words of careful reasoning on the Miracle of Fatima and yet reading it doesn’t feel like engaging with a dense, wordy academic paper.