The deeper danger is in allowing your de facto sense of rationalist community to start being defined by conformity to what people think is merely optimal, rather than the cognitive algorithms and thinking techniques that are supposed to be at the center.
Thumbs up for this; I might even suggest making it a “tl;dr”. In print, I think sometimes “very short abstraction—concrete examples—moderate-length abstraction” works well.
Thumbs up for this; I might even suggest making it a “tl;dr”. In print, I think sometimes “very short abstraction—concrete examples—moderate-length abstraction” works well.