Worrying that I was a useless ineffectual person, and worrying about where all my time went, I put a stop watch on my participation in comp.lang.lisp. I got a terrible shock. “5 minute posts” actually took half an hour to write. Larger, technical posts that I thought took half an hour to write actually took two to three hours.
I contemplate writing a serious reply to your comment. Re-read the top level post slowly and carefully. Think about it. What is it really trying to say? Draft a critique. Think about that that. Cut out my own crap, and stitch the pieces back together. Two hours, minimum.
Participating seriously in an intellectual forum such as LessWrong is very time consuming. Calibrate your expectations around the idea that the open market price, if you were to purchase an intelligent and thoughtful reply, would be $100 to $150. Was your top level post really so excellent that it earned that?
I’ll take that into consideration next time I write a post, as I almost always do write them in one, fast go.
There are a few ideas here that I disagree with, or don’t understand, though.
While my top post wasn’t as excellent as to be worth $ 100, neither were all my comments which were upvoted, and neither are some of the other articles or comments which I have had the occasion to read on LW.
The latter doesn’t excuse poor quality for my part, or anyone else for that matter, as this place deserves our very best, but it nevertheless sets a lower perceived level of posting quality as being admitted and even encouraged here.
The former, puzzles me to no end, as the best explanation I can come up with involve myself having some blatant gap, a blind spot where my intellect and the posting quality derived, is lacking, while in most other instances it appears to be ok.
I have thought about reposting, perhaps in a comment, the main points I was trying to articulate in this article. This way I could maybe see if there’s disagreement or indifference towards any of those, or if the article itself was poorly written, and the point of it, difficult to follow. I’m still afraid that since I appear to be mistaken, and don’t know with certainty why, that I’m only going to worsen this case. Nevertheless, I also need to know, else how am I to do better next time ?
Worrying that I was a useless ineffectual person, and worrying about where all my time went, I put a stop watch on my participation in comp.lang.lisp. I got a terrible shock. “5 minute posts” actually took half an hour to write. Larger, technical posts that I thought took half an hour to write actually took two to three hours.
I contemplate writing a serious reply to your comment. Re-read the top level post slowly and carefully. Think about it. What is it really trying to say? Draft a critique. Think about that that. Cut out my own crap, and stitch the pieces back together. Two hours, minimum.
Participating seriously in an intellectual forum such as LessWrong is very time consuming. Calibrate your expectations around the idea that the open market price, if you were to purchase an intelligent and thoughtful reply, would be $100 to $150. Was your top level post really so excellent that it earned that?
I’ll take that into consideration next time I write a post, as I almost always do write them in one, fast go.
There are a few ideas here that I disagree with, or don’t understand, though.
While my top post wasn’t as excellent as to be worth $ 100, neither were all my comments which were upvoted, and neither are some of the other articles or comments which I have had the occasion to read on LW.
The latter doesn’t excuse poor quality for my part, or anyone else for that matter, as this place deserves our very best, but it nevertheless sets a lower perceived level of posting quality as being admitted and even encouraged here.
The former, puzzles me to no end, as the best explanation I can come up with involve myself having some blatant gap, a blind spot where my intellect and the posting quality derived, is lacking, while in most other instances it appears to be ok.
I have thought about reposting, perhaps in a comment, the main points I was trying to articulate in this article. This way I could maybe see if there’s disagreement or indifference towards any of those, or if the article itself was poorly written, and the point of it, difficult to follow. I’m still afraid that since I appear to be mistaken, and don’t know with certainty why, that I’m only going to worsen this case. Nevertheless, I also need to know, else how am I to do better next time ?