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There is one person whose writings seem of better quality to me than either yours or Eliezer's, and that's Yvain. What do you think his writing style is?
(To be clear, I enjoy what you and EY write, despite the style differences, especially when you are at your best.)
I prefer Yvain's writing style to Eliezer's, but Yvain also has the problem of being too verbose for my taste. In terms of information-to-words ratio, my opinion is that lukeprog's writings outperform Eliezer's and Yvain's.
That's not a good metric to maximize... There is probably some broad optimum preferred by maybe 80% of readers, and too dense or too watery writing is definitely inferior. There ought to be some relevant research out there.
I agree, I think a good writer has a sense when a particular part of his argument is tricky or more difficult to grasp so he may add additional explanations or examples even though he has already made the point.