That said: is this actually intended for general audiences who are not already positively disposed to the local memesphere? I feel like some aspects assume otherwise, and I would expect “remember the litany” in particular to give “I am a foreign priest telling you what to do” vibes. Or, I suppose, is this targeted at people who were otherwise about to post their pseudo-breakthroughs on LW? In that case it would make more sense, in a “since you were about to come here, this is important if you want to be accepted here” sort of way.
I would expect “remember the litany” in particular to give “I am a foreign priest telling you what to do” vibes.
Thanks, you’re absolutely right, I’ll remove that. Are there other specific bits that seem like they’ll come across badly outside the LW memesphere?
I’m ideally writing for the entire audience of people who
Would be likely to use LLMs to help them do novel science.
Are probably outsiders to science to some degree (because otherwise they’d already have people to share their ideas with) and so probably aren’t fully versed in the standard falsifiable-hypothesis/advance-predictions/concrete experiment framing of how science works.
Are open to learning that the ideas they’ve put a bunch of time into are wrong.
I’m sure there are parts of that audience I’m failing to address well, and I’d love to hear ways in which I can make it helpful for more of that audience.
I approve that someone is trying to write these!
That said: is this actually intended for general audiences who are not already positively disposed to the local memesphere? I feel like some aspects assume otherwise, and I would expect “remember the litany” in particular to give “I am a foreign priest telling you what to do” vibes. Or, I suppose, is this targeted at people who were otherwise about to post their pseudo-breakthroughs on LW? In that case it would make more sense, in a “since you were about to come here, this is important if you want to be accepted here” sort of way.
Thanks, you’re absolutely right, I’ll remove that. Are there other specific bits that seem like they’ll come across badly outside the LW memesphere?
I’m ideally writing for the entire audience of people who
Would be likely to use LLMs to help them do novel science.
Are probably outsiders to science to some degree (because otherwise they’d already have people to share their ideas with) and so probably aren’t fully versed in the standard falsifiable-hypothesis/advance-predictions/concrete experiment framing of how science works.
Are open to learning that the ideas they’ve put a bunch of time into are wrong.
I’m sure there are parts of that audience I’m failing to address well, and I’d love to hear ways in which I can make it helpful for more of that audience.