Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Consider Representative Data Sets - Less Wrong

6 Post author: Vladimir_Nesov 06 May 2009 01:49AM

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Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 07 May 2009 02:00:32AM *  2 points [-]

So, what's wrong with this article? Is it bad prose, or too hand-wavy assertions, or overly obscure presentation/inferential distance, or too much text, or too obvious a point? Please leave a comment, I really don't understand.

In general, I think that getting a custom of writing some formal review-like comments would be valuable as feedback, not about the subject of the article, but about presentation, especially if the article looks bad and there is much for the author to work on improving.

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 07 May 2009 05:06:49AM 2 points [-]

Something about it makes it hard to read - I had to squint and concentrate and even then my eyes kept skipping sentences.

Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 07 May 2009 10:40:03AM *  0 points [-]

Does it mean that your impression is that the text is hard to read and at the same time features redundancy? I guess it's possible that I was unconsciously trying to compensate the opaque presentation with repetition...