you seem to be the only user, although not the only account, who experienced this problem.
Are you accusing me of sockpuppetting?
I like Nick Land (see e.g. my comment on jessicata’s post). I’ve read plenty of Xenosystems. I was still confused reading your post (there are lots of headings and quotations and so on in it).
I told you my experience and opinion, mostly because you asked for feedback. Up to you how/whether you update based on it.
My bad, I didn’t check and was tricked by the timing. Sincere apoloigies.
How would you suggest the thing could be improved? (the TeX version in the PDF contains Nick Land only).
I was thinking perhaps to add a link to each XS item, but wasnt really looking forward to rehashing comments of what has probably been the nadir in r/acc / LW diplomatic relations
I think it might be fine. I don’t know. Maybe if you could number the posts like in the PDF that would help to demarcate them.
Here’s a timeline if you want to fully understand how I got confused:
I scrolled down to Will-to-Think and didn’t immediately recognise it (I didn’t realise they would be edited versions of his original blog posts)
I figured therefore it was your commentary
So I scrolled up to the top to read your commentary from the beginning
But I realised the stuff I was reading at the beginning was Nick Land’s writing not commentary
I got bored and moved on with my life still unsure about which parts were commentary and which parts weren’t
If the post were formatted differently maybe I would have been able to recover from my intitial confusion or avoid it altogether. But I’m not knowledgable about how to format things well.
Are you accusing me of sockpuppetting?
I like Nick Land (see e.g. my comment on jessicata’s post). I’ve read plenty of Xenosystems. I was still confused reading your post (there are lots of headings and quotations and so on in it).
I told you my experience and opinion, mostly because you asked for feedback. Up to you how/whether you update based on it.
My bad, I didn’t check and was tricked by the timing. Sincere apoloigies.
How would you suggest the thing could be improved? (the TeX version in the PDF contains Nick Land only).
I was thinking perhaps to add a link to each XS item, but wasnt really looking forward to rehashing comments of what has probably been the nadir in r/acc / LW diplomatic relations
I think it might be fine. I don’t know. Maybe if you could number the posts like in the PDF that would help to demarcate them.
Here’s a timeline if you want to fully understand how I got confused:
I scrolled down to Will-to-Think and didn’t immediately recognise it (I didn’t realise they would be edited versions of his original blog posts)
I figured therefore it was your commentary
So I scrolled up to the top to read your commentary from the beginning
But I realised the stuff I was reading at the beginning was Nick Land’s writing not commentary
I got bored and moved on with my life still unsure about which parts were commentary and which parts weren’t
If the post were formatted differently maybe I would have been able to recover from my intitial confusion or avoid it altogether. But I’m not knowledgable about how to format things well.
uh I see—I’ve put the editors note in blockquote; hope that helps at least to make its meta- character clearer (: