Not sure of where to ask this question, so I might as well ask it here. (Thought of some old entries that may fit better, but I don’t know if comments posted there will get noticed.)
I’m writing an essay on why all religion is objectively false. It is basically a summary of some of Eliezer’s main themes and reformulates in my words points found in posts like Outside the Laboratory, Burdensome Details, Dark Side Epistemology, and so on. As such, I feel a bit reluctant to post it in its full length here—I feel like I’d be preaching to the choir, and not contributing anything new. On the other hand, it may be useful to newcomers, and getting a certain lesson reformulated in some other fashion is always useful for learning.
So what I’m basically asking is—when it’s done, should I post it in LW in its entirety, or should I just post a link? I realize that it doesn’t really make that big of a difference which way I do, but for some reason I still felt like I should ask for the general opinion...
I could be mistaken, but I thought links with minimal commentary were fair game for posts. They probably wouldn’t be promoted to the front page, but could constitute the bulk of total posts. Clearly, we are still sorting out the norms of this community, but this seems to be what Eliezer had in mind when he wrote the about page.
Not sure of where to ask this question, so I might as well ask it here. (Thought of some old entries that may fit better, but I don’t know if comments posted there will get noticed.)
I’m writing an essay on why all religion is objectively false. It is basically a summary of some of Eliezer’s main themes and reformulates in my words points found in posts like Outside the Laboratory, Burdensome Details, Dark Side Epistemology, and so on. As such, I feel a bit reluctant to post it in its full length here—I feel like I’d be preaching to the choir, and not contributing anything new. On the other hand, it may be useful to newcomers, and getting a certain lesson reformulated in some other fashion is always useful for learning.
So what I’m basically asking is—when it’s done, should I post it in LW in its entirety, or should I just post a link? I realize that it doesn’t really make that big of a difference which way I do, but for some reason I still felt like I should ask for the general opinion...
On a related note, can we have a LW Open Thread, or some other way to post links or single-sentence points that don’t deserve their own topics?
I could be mistaken, but I thought links with minimal commentary were fair game for posts. They probably wouldn’t be promoted to the front page, but could constitute the bulk of total posts. Clearly, we are still sorting out the norms of this community, but this seems to be what Eliezer had in mind when he wrote the about page.
Indeed so.