If the Highlights are too long, then print off a single post from each section. If that’s too long, print off your top three. If that’s too long, print off one post.
Summarizing the post usually doesn’t help, as you’ve discovered. So I’m not really sure what else to tell you. You have a lot of curated options to choose from to start. The Highlights, the Best of LessWrong, the Curated Sequences, Codex. Find stuff you like, and print it off for your friend.
Or, alternatively, tell them about HPMOR. That’s how I introduced myself to the concepts in a fashion where the protagonist had need of them. So the techniques stuck with me.
If the Highlights are too long, then print off a single post from each section. If that’s too long, print off your top three. If that’s too long, print off one post.
Summarizing the post usually doesn’t help, as you’ve discovered. So I’m not really sure what else to tell you. You have a lot of curated options to choose from to start. The Highlights, the Best of LessWrong, the Curated Sequences, Codex. Find stuff you like, and print it off for your friend.
Or, alternatively, tell them about HPMOR. That’s how I introduced myself to the concepts in a fashion where the protagonist had need of them. So the techniques stuck with me.