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Yvain comments on Cleaning up the "Worst Argument" essay - Less Wrong
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Poll!
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I preferred the original version that appeared on your private website.
Once you sanitized it for LW by making it more abstract and pedantic, it lost many of the most biting, hilarious asides, that made it a fun and entertaining to read.
The issue is that the asides are only biting and hilarious if you already agreed with them. When Yvain writes a statement like:
I shake my head at the childish framing.
I had never read it until now, actually. I saw it on twitter but didn't read it until it was posted to LW. I think the original original version is the most entertaining to read, but I think the most edited form is the most persuasive to a general audience because it is far more politically neutral.
So...the poll shows +9 support for making it more biased and snarky, +9 support for making it less biased and snarky, and a tepid rejection of leaving it the way it is. Awkward.
You could always post it on your website in both versions, with an initial branching point called "Do you like snarkiness and controversial political examples, or a more philosophical tone?"
I wasn't originally serious when I started writing this comment... but now it doesn't seem like a bad idea. "Original Recipe" and "Extra Abstract", as it were.