Disagree; you’re prematurely optimising. LW is full of dully worthy explanatory articles using the blueprint you describe; an attempt to communicate technical concepts by redundant array of overlapping metaphors is novel and fun even if it doesn’t end up working well.
(Sure, it’s summoned a few bizarre commenting entities, but never mind!)
An interesting perspective—but I don’t get the impression that economy’s actual goal is to make LW more entertaining by posting bizarrely unhelpful metaphorical explanations of elementary concepts in economics. So maybe my advice is good for achieving economy’s goals but bad for making LW a more interesting place overall.
[EDITED to add:] I infer from your other comments that you don’t find economy’s explanations bizarrely unhelpful; so of course we may disagree on what the tradeoffs are here.
Am writing these articles because have reached point in my own research where it became necessary to go back to basics and nail down some fundamental concepts and ideas in very clear way. Was halfway through writing this first sequence before it even occurred to me to post them anywhere, and I will continue to write them even if they fail to find a home. Thus I have already reaped 90% of the benefit I hope to obtain from this sequence (which did already yield one major stunning realization for me). Personal advice would be to see these articles as opportunity to help yourself, not me. Do not mean to suggest not criticizing, questioning, suggesting, etc., but do sincerely mean that “go with flow” “try to understand meaning” attitude will help the readers more than it will help me....
Disagree; you’re prematurely optimising. LW is full of dully worthy explanatory articles using the blueprint you describe; an attempt to communicate technical concepts by redundant array of overlapping metaphors is novel and fun even if it doesn’t end up working well.
(Sure, it’s summoned a few bizarre commenting entities, but never mind!)
An interesting perspective—but I don’t get the impression that economy’s actual goal is to make LW more entertaining by posting bizarrely unhelpful metaphorical explanations of elementary concepts in economics. So maybe my advice is good for achieving economy’s goals but bad for making LW a more interesting place overall.
[EDITED to add:] I infer from your other comments that you don’t find economy’s explanations bizarrely unhelpful; so of course we may disagree on what the tradeoffs are here.
Am writing these articles because have reached point in my own research where it became necessary to go back to basics and nail down some fundamental concepts and ideas in very clear way. Was halfway through writing this first sequence before it even occurred to me to post them anywhere, and I will continue to write them even if they fail to find a home. Thus I have already reaped 90% of the benefit I hope to obtain from this sequence (which did already yield one major stunning realization for me). Personal advice would be to see these articles as opportunity to help yourself, not me. Do not mean to suggest not criticizing, questioning, suggesting, etc., but do sincerely mean that “go with flow” “try to understand meaning” attitude will help the readers more than it will help me....