Articles longer than, say, 1000 symbols should be prefaced with a tl;dr (kind of like an abstract, but not quite). One fourth into the article and I still don’t know what are you talking about.
Approximately:
There is a minimum amount of rationality you need to not flunk reason.
Humans don’t have it by default but I’ve given it to you now.
I’m going to be busy for awhile.
Go be rationalists.
I like it :-) but I’d put it slightly differently myself.
People who try to advance the art of rationality usually get stuck in dead ends—big, twisty dead ends that you can stay lost in.
I’ve tried to set out how to know whether a given direction is a dead end
I’m going to be busy for a while
Please use my dead-end detector to improve itself.
Articles longer than, say, 1000 symbols should be prefaced with a tl;dr (kind of like an abstract, but not quite). One fourth into the article and I still don’t know what are you talking about.
Approximately:
There is a minimum amount of rationality you need to not flunk reason.
Humans don’t have it by default but I’ve given it to you now.
I’m going to be busy for awhile.
Go be rationalists.
I like it :-) but I’d put it slightly differently myself.
People who try to advance the art of rationality usually get stuck in dead ends—big, twisty dead ends that you can stay lost in.
I’ve tried to set out how to know whether a given direction is a dead end
I’m going to be busy for a while
Please use my dead-end detector to improve itself.