R2-Miao comments on Writing Style and the Typical Mind Fallacy - Less Wrong

27 Post author: lukeprog 14 July 2013 04:47AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 14 July 2013 07:38:00AM *  1 point [-]

Eliezer has been telling me I should write more like he does

What are his reasons for suggesting this?

I often can't even tell what his posts are saying.

I agree. Personally, I prefer your writing style. Eliezer's writings strike me as being excessively long-winded and imprecise. As other commentators have pointed out, his Sequences generally have a very low information-to-words ratio -- most people, I suspect, would be significantly better off reading the primary sources instead of spending time reading the Sequences.

Comment author: falenas108 14 July 2013 09:38:12PM 0 points [-]

The thing is, for a lot of people Eliezer is just much more interesting to read, in spite of the long-windedness.