Comment on Introduction: "Acrohumanity"

Wed, 26 Oct 2011 00:58:13 GMT

That seems to illustrate a potential shortcoming of the Readability Estimator, though. The Simple Truth doesn't use as much sophisticated vocabulary as many posts on Less Wrong (it seems that posts are penalized heavily for multisyllabic words) but it is a fair bit harder to understand then to read.

I didn't really get it (if by 'get it' you mean 'see why Eliezer wrote it, and what questions it was intended to answer') until I'd read most of the rest of the site.

In short, it seems like a decent measure of writing clarity, but it's not a measure of inferential distance at all.

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