In that case, I would like to register, without requesting any specific action, that one of the reasons I tend to quietly accept a lot of the scattershot secondary jabs as part of Zvi’s style is that these posts are Personal-Blog-categorized crossposts. He writes earlier that “I am happy that the community gets use out of them, but they are not designed for the front page of LessWrong or its norms.” Giving most of the last few sections full front page status as-is feels very costly to me. If I could provide a finger-snap option, I’d go with “front-page a separate post that only pulls the more critical and topical information from this one”, but of course someone would have to actually do that. (In theory I would offer to do such derivation, but I won’t have spare mental space for something of that order for several days yet, which is presumably too late.)
And along the lines of another comment subtree, from my perspective most (not all) of the wave of Twitter links on this post feels worse in terms of “more heat than light” than what I see from an ad-hoc resample of previous posts in the series—in a way it feels like the series has been leaning further and further almost-but-not-quite toward the “Agreed that doing what I did here on a regular basis would be quite bad” zone from the one post in the series that had a more clearly marked digression on US election results.
(Half-contrasting opinion-observation: I’m aware of and mostly am okay with the level of stylistic pointedness in Zvi’s other writing such as “More Dakka” and the Moral Mazes series, but I don’t think I’ve elsewhere observed the one-two punch of that plus edging against more-heat-than-light topics arriving from Twitter.)
Editing the blog posts for “front page tone” would delay the posting by some appreciable time. Perhaps just one hour, if someone could commit to doing it as soon as zvi has his version completed. Or perhaps a 12-24 hour delay if someone is going to do it when it’s convenient for themselves on Thursday.
I would volunteer to do the second level of effort. My only credential is that I am willing to do it.
If you think this is a good idea I suggest emailing me your version of this week’s post, so I can see what I think of the offered product (you can PM me for my email, or link me to the version).
In that case, I would like to register, without requesting any specific action, that one of the reasons I tend to quietly accept a lot of the scattershot secondary jabs as part of Zvi’s style is that these posts are Personal-Blog-categorized crossposts. He writes earlier that “I am happy that the community gets use out of them, but they are not designed for the front page of LessWrong or its norms.” Giving most of the last few sections full front page status as-is feels very costly to me. If I could provide a finger-snap option, I’d go with “front-page a separate post that only pulls the more critical and topical information from this one”, but of course someone would have to actually do that. (In theory I would offer to do such derivation, but I won’t have spare mental space for something of that order for several days yet, which is presumably too late.)
And along the lines of another comment subtree, from my perspective most (not all) of the wave of Twitter links on this post feels worse in terms of “more heat than light” than what I see from an ad-hoc resample of previous posts in the series—in a way it feels like the series has been leaning further and further almost-but-not-quite toward the “Agreed that doing what I did here on a regular basis would be quite bad” zone from the one post in the series that had a more clearly marked digression on US election results.
(Half-contrasting opinion-observation: I’m aware of and mostly am okay with the level of stylistic pointedness in Zvi’s other writing such as “More Dakka” and the Moral Mazes series, but I don’t think I’ve elsewhere observed the one-two punch of that plus edging against more-heat-than-light topics arriving from Twitter.)
Editing the blog posts for “front page tone” would delay the posting by some appreciable time. Perhaps just one hour, if someone could commit to doing it as soon as zvi has his version completed. Or perhaps a 12-24 hour delay if someone is going to do it when it’s convenient for themselves on Thursday.
I would volunteer to do the second level of effort. My only credential is that I am willing to do it.
If you think this is a good idea I suggest emailing me your version of this week’s post, so I can see what I think of the offered product (you can PM me for my email, or link me to the version).