I’ve noticed that your writing tends to be very abstract and gestures towards ideas with a lot of potential impact on instrumental rationality, but often doesn’t spell things out in a concrete way. Do you think you could add examples and, in general, try to say things explicitly instead of hinting at them?
A part of the reason is that I keep my writing very low-energy, because otherwise I wouldn’t care to make it happen at all. But yeah, this is fixable if I figure out how to make concrete writing more fun.
Another part is that “hinting at interesting and valuable directions to think” is often my ideal goal. There’s a already a bunch of rationalists running around handing out free gun upgrades, resulting in a lot of people being able to shoot themselves in the foot with more power and precision than ever before.
I’ve noticed that your writing tends to be very abstract and gestures towards ideas with a lot of potential impact on instrumental rationality, but often doesn’t spell things out in a concrete way. Do you think you could add examples and, in general, try to say things explicitly instead of hinting at them?
Sounds like a reasonable complaint.
A part of the reason is that I keep my writing very low-energy, because otherwise I wouldn’t care to make it happen at all. But yeah, this is fixable if I figure out how to make concrete writing more fun.
Another part is that “hinting at interesting and valuable directions to think” is often my ideal goal. There’s a already a bunch of rationalists running around handing out free gun upgrades, resulting in a lot of people being able to shoot themselves in the foot with more power and precision than ever before.