It is a skill that I know you have, and would use if you had a confident model of me as a careful thinker.
I have a confident model that you are a better thinker than posts like these suggest. But as Wei Dai says, that’s not enough: I don’t want to see posts that are unpleasant to read (not only for the cryptic obscurity, but also for excessive length and lack of paragraphing), don’t have enough valuable content to justify wading through, and turn people off of Less Wrong. Worse, since I know you can do better, these flaws feel like intentional defection with respect to Less Wrong norms of clarity in communication.
I have a confident model that you are a better thinker than posts like these suggest. But as Wei Dai says, that’s not enough: I don’t want to see posts that are unpleasant to read (not only for the cryptic obscurity, but also for excessive length and lack of paragraphing), don’t have enough valuable content to justify wading through, and turn people off of Less Wrong. Worse, since I know you can do better, these flaws feel like intentional defection with respect to Less Wrong norms of clarity in communication.