Promoted to curated: It’s been a month since this was written, but I still think it’s an excellent post, and I generally think that methodological analyses of this kind are quite valuable.
I can imagine some people finding the tone and expressiveness a bit off-putting, but I enjoyed it, and generally think most methodological analyses like this are too dry and don’t expose the author’s beliefs enough.
I do think there are some improvements to structure you could make. Some basic headings I think would have helped me a lot in not feeling a bit lost around the latter third of the post, but overall I found it enjoyable to read and the structure wasn’t too big of a problem.
Would you mind making the headings into actual headings (instead of just bold text)? That would make the post easier to skim; also, that way, when the post is viewed on GreaterWrong, there will be an auto-generated table of contents!
FYI, LessWrong is about to deploy Table of Contents, and will support elements that are entirely bold being treated as a (small) heading. (This roughly matches what Google Docs does), and might be good to have the two sites match if possible.
Promoted to curated: It’s been a month since this was written, but I still think it’s an excellent post, and I generally think that methodological analyses of this kind are quite valuable.
I can imagine some people finding the tone and expressiveness a bit off-putting, but I enjoyed it, and generally think most methodological analyses like this are too dry and don’t expose the author’s beliefs enough.
I do think there are some improvements to structure you could make. Some basic headings I think would have helped me a lot in not feeling a bit lost around the latter third of the post, but overall I found it enjoyable to read and the structure wasn’t too big of a problem.
Thanks for the comments, I’ve added section headings so hopefully it reads a bit easier now.
To be honest I really didn’t expect this to be as interesting to people as it was—glad to be proven wrong!
Would you mind making the headings into actual headings (instead of just bold text)? That would make the post easier to skim; also, that way, when the post is viewed on GreaterWrong, there will be an auto-generated table of contents!
FYI, LessWrong is about to deploy Table of Contents, and will support elements that are entirely bold being treated as a (small) heading. (This roughly matches what Google Docs does), and might be good to have the two sites match if possible.
The ToC feature is dope :-)
Done :)
Oops, forgot to press the curate button. Now actually curated.