Wrongnesslessness comments on Why Don't People Help Others More? - Less Wrong

36 Post author: peter_hurford 13 August 2012 11:34PM

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Comment author: Wrongnesslessness 16 August 2012 12:14:15PM 5 points [-]

Thanks for making me understand something extremely important with regard to creative work: Every creator should have a single, identifiable victim of his creations!

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 14 September 2012 06:39:19AM 1 point [-]

As far as I can tell, unless I have very specific information about the person I'm writing to, I'm writing for myself as of the moment just before I had whatever insight I'm trying to convey.

That could explain why I'm much more concerned with being clear than with being persuasive.