DoubleReed comments on Rhetoric for the Good - Less Wrong

49 Post author: lukeprog 26 October 2011 06:52PM

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Comment author: DoubleReed 25 October 2011 08:01:48PM *  0 points [-]

Personally, I'm very much against the idea of writing down "whatever horrible shit comes out of you." Maybe it's me personally. I think it's faster to actually outline, revise, develop, revise, etc. in a much more cyclical manner. Planning can break the looming threat of writer's block. Quite often, I won't have enough ideas to start to get anywhere in a worthwhile manner.

Instead, I want to flesh out the major ideas and develop them as much as I can along the entirety of your work. Write out parts here and there to determine what the direction of the development is.

Ideas are comparatively cheap. It's the development and details of ideas that can be difficult. So you need to give yourself room to make those developments.

Comment author: Vaniver 27 October 2011 02:39:13PM 2 points [-]

Personally, I'm very much against the idea of writing down "whatever horrible shit comes out of you." Maybe it's me personally.

Creators seem to cluster as conceptual or experimental. Conceptual creators work well with outlines; experimental creators work well with revisions.

Comment author: wedrifid 25 October 2011 08:04:08PM -1 points [-]

Personally, I'm very much against the idea of writing down "whatever horrible shit comes out of you."

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Comment author: [deleted] 25 October 2011 09:19:06PM -2 points [-]

Is that... what I think it is?

Comment author: wedrifid 25 October 2011 09:19:39PM 0 points [-]

A How I Met Your Mother reference?

Comment author: [deleted] 25 October 2011 09:24:30PM -2 points [-]

Never watched it. Looks like a pile of doody to me (the ampersand, not the show).

Comment author: thomblake 25 October 2011 09:46:28PM 0 points [-]

In a recent episode, it was revealed that the characters text each other symbols representing what their poop looks like.

Comment author: lessdazed 26 October 2011 04:05:51AM 5 points [-]

P(A|B)=P(B|A)P(A)/P(B)

Comment author: Jack 26 October 2011 04:15:15AM 2 points [-]

The inevitable result of a Dutch breakfast.

Comment author: ciphergoth 26 October 2011 10:06:36AM 1 point [-]

"I'm so rational, I shit Bayes Theorem"?

Comment author: [deleted] 28 October 2011 10:12:25AM *  -2 points [-]

That would be the Best. Eliezer Yudkowsky Fact. Ever.