fwiw I think Lightcone staff regularly say “this is / isn’t cruxy for me”. (But not sure how common it is elsewhere)
But, a thing I initially interpreted this post as saying that felt interesting was having more of a habit of which bits are cruxy and which are more like interesting background. (Thinking another 5 min I don’t think this is that helpful a habit because when I’m writing posts I’m basically always already writing stuff that was cruxy for me)
Some things are more legible than others. If I believe something based on dozen pieces of evidence all pointing in the same direction, removing one piece of evidence wouldn’t significantly change the outcome.
(Of course, removing all of them would change my mind; and even removing a few of them would make me suspicious about the remaining ones.)
So sometimes it makes sense to write things that are not cruxy.
fwiw I think Lightcone staff regularly say “this is / isn’t cruxy for me”. (But not sure how common it is elsewhere)
But, a thing I initially interpreted this post as saying that felt interesting was having more of a habit of which bits are cruxy and which are more like interesting background. (Thinking another 5 min I don’t think this is that helpful a habit because when I’m writing posts I’m basically always already writing stuff that was cruxy for me)
Some things are more legible than others. If I believe something based on dozen pieces of evidence all pointing in the same direction, removing one piece of evidence wouldn’t significantly change the outcome.
(Of course, removing all of them would change my mind; and even removing a few of them would make me suspicious about the remaining ones.)
So sometimes it makes sense to write things that are not cruxy.