I’m not feeling motivated to add a new introductory paragraph. Here are some of my reasons:
Unclear what is wrong, what particularly caused you to be confused.
Priors about tradeoffs with level of repetition colliding with my ideas about my target audience.
Priors about how many iterations it takes to make it much less confusing colliding with guesses about the feedback loop I’d get from trying to alleviate your confusion. How many times would you respond? How much detail would you respond in? How fast would it be? How long would I have to spend checking LessWrong to see if I got another comment?
Guesses about how long it would take and what else I could be doing with my time. (Finishing one of my many draft blog posts while I’m on the train right now, for instance.)
If it helps --
I don’t understand what the second half (from the part about Youtube videos onwards) has to do with fighting or optimizing styles.
I also didn’t glean what an ‘optimizing style’ is, so I think the point is lost on me.
Regardless of your laundry list of reasons not to edit your post, you should read “I’m confused about what you wrote” comments, if you believe them to be legitimate criticisms, as a sign that your personal filter on your own writing is not catching certain problems, so you might be highly benefitted by taking it as an opportunity to work on your filter so you can see what we see. Upgrading your filter on your own work leads to systematic improvement across all of your work instead of just improvements to the one we’re talking about.
If you’re worried about responsiveness, you might get further by just asking for more detail before making changes instead of explaining, approximately, “I don’t feel like making changes because I’m not convinced that it’ll be a good use of my time or that I’ll get more responses to make it successful”. (I won’t fault you for lacking motivation, of course not, that’s the battle we all fight—but I also suspect that you’d profit considerably from finding that motivation, since it might lead to systematic improvement of your writing.)
This is good detail. Thank you for it. I have made adjustments. Most importantly, to the first paragraph, and a transition before the YouTube paragraph.
I’m not reading what you said as a promise to help me iterate, and don’t want you to think you’re obligated. I have already gotten value as-is. But if you want to compare with the original, it’s still unmodified in the copy on my blog for now.
I am confused and think this needs an introductory paragraph. Can you add one in?
I’m not feeling motivated to add a new introductory paragraph. Here are some of my reasons:
Unclear what is wrong, what particularly caused you to be confused.
Priors about tradeoffs with level of repetition colliding with my ideas about my target audience.
Priors about how many iterations it takes to make it much less confusing colliding with guesses about the feedback loop I’d get from trying to alleviate your confusion. How many times would you respond? How much detail would you respond in? How fast would it be? How long would I have to spend checking LessWrong to see if I got another comment?
Guesses about how long it would take and what else I could be doing with my time. (Finishing one of my many draft blog posts while I’m on the train right now, for instance.)
If it helps -- I don’t understand what the second half (from the part about Youtube videos onwards) has to do with fighting or optimizing styles.
I also didn’t glean what an ‘optimizing style’ is, so I think the point is lost on me.
Regardless of your laundry list of reasons not to edit your post, you should read “I’m confused about what you wrote” comments, if you believe them to be legitimate criticisms, as a sign that your personal filter on your own writing is not catching certain problems, so you might be highly benefitted by taking it as an opportunity to work on your filter so you can see what we see. Upgrading your filter on your own work leads to systematic improvement across all of your work instead of just improvements to the one we’re talking about.
If you’re worried about responsiveness, you might get further by just asking for more detail before making changes instead of explaining, approximately, “I don’t feel like making changes because I’m not convinced that it’ll be a good use of my time or that I’ll get more responses to make it successful”. (I won’t fault you for lacking motivation, of course not, that’s the battle we all fight—but I also suspect that you’d profit considerably from finding that motivation, since it might lead to systematic improvement of your writing.)
This is good detail. Thank you for it. I have made adjustments. Most importantly, to the first paragraph, and a transition before the YouTube paragraph.
I’m not reading what you said as a promise to help me iterate, and don’t want you to think you’re obligated. I have already gotten value as-is. But if you want to compare with the original, it’s still unmodified in the copy on my blog for now.