= 27d567bc2d48d9f40e9ccc20ea370b15)
Luke_A_Somers comments on How to Write Deep Characters - Less Wrong
You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.
= 783df68a0f980790206b9ea87794c5b6)
Loading…= b715d02e85f7b3b4ae65ca3d3e450868)
Subscribe to RSS Feed
Powered by Reddit
= f037147d6e6c911a85753b9abdedda8d)
You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.
Comments (68)
Heh, every now and then I get a compliment which actually does make me feel like a proper genius in the pre-Dweckian unhealthy sense because it compliments something I accomplished with literally no effort. Likewise when somebody congratulates me on all the effort I must have put in to get HPMOR's time-travel plots straight. I do those in my head without any notes, and it doesn't feel difficult. I wonder if any other mathematician or mathematician-lite would say the same thing I would, that time-travel plots are much less complicated than even slightly serious math.
I think that it's mainly that time travel plots seem a lot harder to write than they are.
Or, that because most of time travel in popular media make no sense whatsoever, people assume it must be very difficult.
They're easier to have written before they're done than they are to start afterwards.
This is true of an unsurprisingly large fraction of writing projects.