Writing (communication method)

TagLast edit: May 31, 2021, 8:30 AM by Jsevillamol

About the art and science of using writing to think and communicate.

Including posts on: the history of writing, how to write better, comparing and recommending writing tools, and more.

External Links:

Nonfiction Writing Advice by Scott Alexander

Related Pages: Communication Cultures, Philosophy of Language, Inferential Distance

How To Write Quickly While Maintaining Epistemic Rigor

johnswentworthAug 28, 2021, 5:52 PM

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How to Write Like Kaj Sotala

Matt GoldenbergJan 7, 2021, 7:33 PM

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Epistemic Legibility

ElizabethFeb 9, 2022, 6:10 PM

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(acesounderglass.com)

Writing to think

Adam ZernerNov 17, 2020, 7:54 AM

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Editing Advice for LessWrong Users

JustisMillsApr 11, 2022, 4:32 PM

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Contrarian Writing Advice

lsusrMar 7, 2021, 12:23 AM

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Writing On The Pareto Frontier

johnswentworthSep 17, 2021, 12:05 AM

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[Question] Are there good classes (or just articles) on blog writing?

Brendan LongApr 19, 2021, 1:10 AM

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Dan Luu on “You can only communicate one top priority”

RaemonMar 18, 2023, 6:55 PM

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(twitter.com)

And Yet, Defend your Thoughts from AI Writing

Michael SamoilovSep 21, 2025, 3:52 PM

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(open.substack.com)

Abstracts should be either Actually Short™, or broken into paragraphs

RaemonMar 24, 2023, 12:51 AM

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Notes on writing

RPJan 10, 2023, 4:01 AM

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Don’t feed the void. She is fat enough!

Johannes C. MayerDec 29, 2022, 2:18 PM

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How to Write Science Fiction and Fantasy—A Short Summary

JsevillamolMay 29, 2021, 11:47 AM

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Writing children’s picture books

jessicataJun 25, 2019, 9:43 PM

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(unstableontology.com)

What Does It Mean to “Write Like You Talk”?

Arjun PanicksseryMay 15, 2025, 9:49 AM

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Observations about writing and commenting on the internet

dynomightFeb 15, 2022, 12:02 AM

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Typology of blog posts that don’t always add anything clear and insightful

KatjaGraceJul 13, 2021, 1:40 AM

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(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

A Thoughtful Defense of AI Writing

Michael SamoilovSep 16, 2025, 2:08 AM

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(agenticconjectures.substack.com)

Duncan Sabien On Writing

lynettebyeApr 7, 2022, 4:09 PM

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Original Seeing

Eliezer YudkowskyOct 14, 2007, 4:38 AM

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Why write more: improve your epistemics, self-care, & 28 other reasons

KatWoodsDec 17, 2022, 7:25 PM

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Why the Best Writers Endure Isolation

Declan MolonyJul 16, 2024, 5:58 AM

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Short story speculating on possible ramifications of AI on the art world

YitzSep 1, 2022, 9:15 PM

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(archiveofourown.org)

The Best Lay Argument is not a Simple English Yud Essay

J BostockSep 10, 2024, 5:34 PM

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How to Get Rationalist Feedback

Nicholas KrossOct 5, 2023, 2:03 AM

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The ideas you’re not ready to post

JulianMorrisonApr 19, 2009, 9:23 PM

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Rhetoric for the Good

lukeprogOct 26, 2011, 6:52 PM

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Writing That Provokes Comments

RaemonOct 4, 2017, 2:48 AM

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Blog Respectably

lsusrDec 17, 2021, 1:23 AM

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When writing triggers memory reconsolidation

Adam ZernerJul 25, 2021, 10:10 PM

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Quantum Explanations

Eliezer YudkowskyApr 9, 2008, 8:15 AM

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My checklist for publishing a blog post

Steven ByrnesAug 15, 2023, 3:04 PM

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What topics would you like to see more of on LessWrong?

EmileDec 13, 2010, 4:20 PM

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Subscripts for Probabilities

niplavApr 13, 2023, 6:32 PM

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[Question] Should you write under a blog or your own name?

Dalton MaberyJul 6, 2022, 3:26 PM

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The Insanity Detector and Writing

Johannes C. MayerMar 7, 2025, 11:19 AM

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Exquisite Oracle: A Dadaist-Inspired Literary Game for Many Friends (or 1 AI)

YitzJan 26, 2023, 6:26 PM

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Writing Down Conversations

RaemonDec 28, 2017, 10:08 PM

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Why Have Sentence Lengths Decreased?

Arjun PanicksseryApr 3, 2025, 5:50 PM

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(arjunpanickssery.substack.com)

Open loops in fiction

Kaj_SotalaMar 14, 2021, 8:50 AM

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(kajsotala.fi)

Substack Ho?

ZviNov 6, 2021, 4:50 PM

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(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Some reasons why I frequently prefer communicating via text

Adam ZernerSep 18, 2023, 9:50 PM

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Three Principles to Writing Original Nonfiction

lsusrSep 6, 2021, 8:08 PM

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How webs of meaning grow and change

HazardAug 14, 2020, 1:58 PM

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Control the Density of Novelty in Your Writing

En KepeigApr 6, 2022, 9:33 PM

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Write Surprisingly About Reality

lsusrOct 16, 2021, 7:30 AM

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Review: Amusing Ourselves to Death

L Rudolf LAug 20, 2022, 9:13 PM

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(www.strataoftheworld.com)

Poetic Methods I: Meter as Communication Protocol

adamShimiFeb 1, 2025, 6:22 PM

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(formethods.substack.com)

Write It Like A Poem

Strange7Feb 16, 2011, 3:11 PM

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Write

alkjashJan 29, 2018, 2:11 AM

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(radimentary.wordpress.com)

Personal blogging as self-imposed oppression

xarknJan 15, 2022, 2:51 PM

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Twitter thread on postrationalists

Eli TyreFeb 17, 2022, 9:02 AM

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“Publish or Perish” (a quick note on why you should try to make your work legible to existing academic communities)

David Scott Krueger (formerly: capybaralet)Mar 18, 2023, 7:01 PM

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Tell the Truth

lsusrOct 30, 2021, 10:27 AM

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Policy for LLM Writing on LessWrong

jimrandomhMar 24, 2025, 9:41 PM

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Five examples

Adam ZernerFeb 14, 2021, 2:47 AM

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Popularizing vibes vs. models

DirectedEvolutionJul 12, 2023, 5:44 AM

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[Question] Does anyone have a good system for prioritising publishing drafts?

William HowardJun 6, 2025, 4:58 PM

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You Can Now Embed Flashcard Quizzes in Your LessWrong posts!

spencergApr 19, 2021, 1:44 PM

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Refine: what helped me write more?

Alexander Gietelink OldenzielOct 25, 2022, 2:44 PM

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Debugging Writer’s Block

mattoOct 9, 2021, 7:04 PM

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Random facts can come back to bite you

tailcalledDec 22, 2021, 5:33 PM

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In praise of contributing examples, analogies and lingo

Adam ZernerJul 13, 2020, 6:43 AM

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Learning By Writing

HoldenKarnofskyFeb 22, 2022, 3:50 PM

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(www.cold-takes.com)

The many types of blog posts

Adam ZernerNov 26, 2022, 3:57 AM

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Business Writing Example #2

lsusrDec 20, 2021, 5:06 AM

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Treat Examples as World-Building

adamShimiMar 10, 2022, 3:09 PM

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Start with a Title

lsusrOct 30, 2021, 8:59 AM

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Only say ‘rational’ when you can’t eliminate the word

Eliezer YudkowskyMay 31, 2012, 6:56 AM

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On Suddenly Not Being Able to Work

Jacob FalkovichAug 25, 2020, 10:14 PM

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Book Analysis: New Thrawn Trilogy

ozymandiasOct 14, 2021, 5:49 PM

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[Question] What’s your favorite notetaking system?

ElizabethSep 30, 2019, 6:18 AM

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Autoregressive Propaganda

lsusrAug 22, 2021, 2:18 AM

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Simple but important ideas

John_MaxwellMar 21, 2012, 6:59 AM

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Good Writing

Adam ZernerMay 25, 2025, 9:52 PM

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(paulgraham.com)

Iterating fast: voice dictation as a form of babble

Gytis DaujotasJan 25, 2022, 12:21 AM

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Here’s a List of Some of My Ideas for Blog Posts

lsusrMay 26, 2022, 5:35 AM

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Reflections on writing 15 daily blog posts

CstineSublimeAug 23, 2025, 1:50 AM

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A method of writing content easily with little anxiety

jessicataApr 8, 2022, 10:11 PM

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(unstableontology.com)

Word Spaghetti

Gordon Seidoh WorleyOct 23, 2024, 5:39 AM

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[Question] Should LW suggest standard metaprompts?

DagonAug 21, 2024, 4:41 PM

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Learn to write well BEFORE you have something worth saying

eukaryoteDec 29, 2024, 11:42 PM

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(eukaryotewritesblog.com)

Looking Back on Posts From 2022

ZviDec 26, 2022, 1:20 PM

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(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Excerpts from “A Reader’s Manifesto”

Arjun PanicksserySep 6, 2024, 10:37 PM

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Write a Thousand Roads to Rome

ScrewtapeFeb 8, 2018, 6:09 PM

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English writes numbers backwards

TurnTroutJul 25, 2025, 11:00 PM

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The Haters Gonna Hate Fallacy

Kaj_SotalaSep 22, 2020, 12:20 PM

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(kajsotala.fi)

Write posts business-like, not story-like

ShmiMay 5, 2022, 8:13 PM

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Attending LessOnline

jefftkApr 2, 2025, 11:10 AM

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RA Bounty: Looking for feedback on screenplay about AI Risk

WriterOct 26, 2023, 1:23 PM

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Saying things because they sound good

Adam ZernerJan 31, 2023, 12:17 AM

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Conciseness Manifesto

Vasyl DotsenkoJun 29, 2025, 5:33 AM

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Why and how to write things on the Internet

benkuhnDec 29, 2022, 10:40 PM

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Writing Style and the Typical Mind Fallacy

lukeprogJul 14, 2013, 4:47 AM

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Hedge drift and advanced motte-and-bailey

Stefan_SchubertMay 1, 2016, 2:45 PM

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A blog post is a very long and complex search query to find fascinating people and make them route interesting stuff to your inbox

Henrik KarlssonOct 5, 2022, 7:07 PM

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(escapingflatland.substack.com)

Business Writing Example #1

lsusrDec 20, 2021, 5:02 AM

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Practicing my Handwriting in 1439

Maxwell TabarrokFeb 3, 2024, 1:21 PM

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(www.maximum-progress.com)

[Question] How to write better?

TeaTieAndHatJan 29, 2024, 5:02 PM

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Writing this post as rationality case study

Ben AmitayJul 8, 2023, 12:24 PM

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[Question] Why Don’t Creators Switch to their Own Platforms?

Jacob FalkovichDec 23, 2018, 4:46 AM

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Blog Post Day II Retrospective

Daniel KokotajloMar 31, 2020, 3:03 PM

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LessWrong is providing feedback and proofreading on drafts as a service

RubySep 7, 2021, 1:33 AM

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Beta Readers are Great

HoldenKarnofskySep 5, 2022, 7:10 PM

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The Monthly Newsletter as Thinking Tool

moridinamaelFeb 2, 2018, 4:42 PM

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When to join a respectability cascade

B JacobsSep 24, 2024, 7:54 AM

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[Question] when will LLMs become human-level bloggers?

nostalgebraistMar 9, 2025, 9:10 PM

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Against “Classic Style”

Cleo NardoNov 23, 2022, 10:10 PM

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Meditations on the Medium

lifelonglearnerApr 29, 2018, 2:21 AM

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The Virtue of Numbering ALL your Equations

Linda LinseforsSep 28, 2017, 6:41 PM

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Rewriting the sequences?

Student_UKJun 13, 2011, 2:14 PM

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My case for starting blogging

Neel NandaOct 22, 2020, 5:43 PM

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(www.neelnanda.io)

Bite Sized Tasks

Johannes C. MayerMar 4, 2023, 3:31 AM

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Notes on effective-altruism-related research, writing, testing fit, learning, and the EA Forum

MichaelAMar 28, 2021, 11:43 PM

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Can someone, anyone, make superintelligence a more concrete concept?

Ori NagelFeb 4, 2025, 2:18 AM

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Dominant Assurance Contract Experiment #2: Berkeley House Dinners

Arjun PanicksseryJul 5, 2023, 12:13 AM

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Seeking Input to AI Safety Book for non-technical audience

Darren McKeeAug 10, 2023, 5:58 PM

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Rationality and the English Language

Eliezer YudkowskySep 12, 2007, 10:55 PM

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Poll: Any interest in an editing buddy system?

dynomightDec 2, 2020, 2:18 AM

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Prefer the British Style of Quotation Mark Punctuation over the American

Erich_GrunewaldSep 11, 2021, 1:37 PM

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How to Make Your Article Change People’s Minds or Actions? (Spoiler: Do User Testing Like a Startup Would)

Yonatan CaleMar 30, 2022, 5:39 PM

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Epistemic Effort

RaemonNov 29, 2016, 4:08 PM

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Please give your links speaking names!

rmoehnJul 11, 2019, 7:47 AM

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How to write an academic paper, according to me

Stuart_ArmstrongOct 15, 2014, 12:29 PM

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[Question] What is some unnecessarily obscure jargon that people here tend to use?

jchanJul 12, 2023, 1:52 PM

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Reading writing advice doesn’t make writing easier

Henry SleightFeb 7, 2024, 7:14 PM

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(open.substack.com)

Shortform Beta Launch

RaemonJul 27, 2019, 8:09 PM

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A more effective Elevator Pitch for AI risk

IknownothingJun 15, 2023, 12:39 PM

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I hate TL;DR

MarkusRamikinSep 20, 2011, 9:23 AM

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The Best Essay (Paul Graham)

Chris_LeongMar 11, 2024, 7:25 PM

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Rediscovery, the Mind’s Curare

Erich_GrunewaldApr 10, 2021, 7:42 AM

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Too right to write

Solenoid_EntityJan 20, 2022, 1:21 PM

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SubOnlyStackFans

Jacob FalkovichNov 3, 2020, 2:33 AM

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Have an idea? Come to Oxford to discuss and write (20 – 24 March)

RP, Flourish Journal and Jemima

Feb 5, 2023, 3:05 PM

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More Hyphenation

Arjun PanicksseryFeb 7, 2024, 7:43 PM

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Avoid Contentious Terms

jefftkFeb 24, 2021, 3:10 AM

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Conventional footnotes considered harmful

dkl9Oct 1, 2024, 2:54 PM

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AIS terminology proposal: standardize terms for probability ranges

eggsyntaxAug 30, 2024, 3:43 PM

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EchoFusion VX1C38 – A Simulation-Based Model for AI Safety

Vishvas GoswamiJul 2, 2025, 10:48 AM

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DIY Deliberate Practice

lynettebyeAug 21, 2023, 12:22 PM

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Motivating Alignment of LLM-Powered Agents: Easy for AGI, Hard for ASI?

RogerDearnaleyJan 11, 2024, 12:56 PM

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Will LLMs supplant the field of creative writing?

Declan MolonyJan 28, 2025, 6:42 AM

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