CharlesR comments on Heading Toward: No-Nonsense Metaethics - Less Wrong
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Hmmmm. What do other people think of this idea?
I suspect one reason Eliezer did not do this is that when you make a long list of claims without any justification for them, it sounds silly and people don't pay attention to the rest of the sequence. But if you had first stepped them through the entire argument, they would have found no place at which they can really disagree. That's a concern, anyway.
That's sort of like reading the end of a novel before you buy it. If you do include a summary, please announce what you're doing and make it something we can skip.
Novels are meant to be entertaining. Luke's metaethics post(s) would be meant to be useful, so the analogy isn't valid. Even so, novels frequently have a summary on the inside flap of the dust cover. I hope to see the summary.