Secondly, to preserve the flow of writing, it’s important to use words/phrases that don’t need links to be understood. For example, the way you use ‘grok’ or ‘information asymmetry’ breaks the flow. It’s alright to use those words, and it’s alright to link them, but it’s important that you explain the words as you use them so that the reader doesn’t break focus.
I disagree with that. I really like this style and I’m happy it’s popular on LessWrong. It means that those who know what a term means can read through without interruption, and those that don’t are pointed to somewhere they can actually read and learn deeply about it instead of just explaining it in one line. It also allows to build upon ideas much more easily, some posts here are jargon heavy (in a good way), and it would be very difficult to write them if everyone had to explain every term from scratch. To be clear, It’s not that I have a problem with people explaining terms (though it can get excessive, you see that in journalism a lot), in some cases It’s good and It’s in large part a matter of style.
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I disagree with that. I really like this style and I’m happy it’s popular on LessWrong. It means that those who know what a term means can read through without interruption, and those that don’t are pointed to somewhere they can actually read and learn deeply about it instead of just explaining it in one line. It also allows to build upon ideas much more easily, some posts here are jargon heavy (in a good way), and it would be very difficult to write them if everyone had to explain every term from scratch. To be clear, It’s not that I have a problem with people explaining terms (though it can get excessive, you see that in journalism a lot), in some cases It’s good and It’s in large part a matter of style.
What formatting do you want? Generally if you want formatting options you select the text and a menu appears.