Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on The benefits of madness: A positive account of arationality - Less Wrong

101 Post author: Skatche 22 April 2011 07:43PM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 22 April 2011 10:08:36PM 31 points [-]

You should definitely write at least the first post in this attempted sequence; either it will work or it won't.

Though I will advise that you lead with your strongest and most useful point - you can try writing things in an optimal educational order after that; first you have to hook your readers.

Comment author: Skatche 23 April 2011 01:11:26AM 3 points [-]

Thanks for the suggestion; I'll definitely keep that in mind as I'm writing.

Comment author: Jonathan_Graehl 23 April 2011 12:00:01AM *  4 points [-]

I was thinking that how not to go irrevocably awry would be the best topic to cover first, assuming the other stuff works for most people. But it would be hard to care about that material, since I doubt that assumption.