I’m mostly going off intuitions. One bit of data you might look over is the titles of the Best of LessWrong section, which is what people turned out to remember and find important.
I think there is something virtuous about the sort of title you make, but, also a different kind of virtue in writing to argue for specific points or concepts you want in people’s heads. (In this case, the post does get “Illegible problems” into people’s heads, it’s just that I think people mostly already have heard of those, or think they have)
(I think an important TODO is for someone to find a compelling argument that people who are skeptical about “work on illegible stuff” would find persuasive)
I’m mostly going off intuitions. One bit of data you might look over is the titles of the Best of LessWrong section, which is what people turned out to remember and find important.
I think there is something virtuous about the sort of title you make, but, also a different kind of virtue in writing to argue for specific points or concepts you want in people’s heads. (In this case, the post does get “Illegible problems” into people’s heads, it’s just that I think people mostly already have heard of those, or think they have)
(I think an important TODO is for someone to find a compelling argument that people who are skeptical about “work on illegible stuff” would find persuasive)