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Thanks for the criticism.
I just tried to edit the post to use the bullet point system provided by the source code, but I couldn't get it to look the way I wanted it to--things wouldn't space out right, there were vertical lines popping up when I would indent, weird stuff I don't know how to fix.
I wrote the text in 2003 Word. I always have trouble with bullets, especially trying to change from one version of Word to another, or to an online word editor. I don't want to write pieces in the Less Wrong text editor because I'm afraid they will get erased accidentally. If you have any advice, please let me know.
I agree that the things I recommended to fight boredom aren't used primarily for that purpose. I see that as a strength; they deepen comprehension while also forcing you to do something, (hopefully) providing you with a task more stimulating than just reading.
If you want the indentation to work consistently, one indentation is 4 spaces, two is 8, etc. Remember to put a space after the * or it will not work either.
Word formatting will not directly translate to web formatting. If you want to copy the text without formatting, use ctrl+shift+v when pasting it. I recommend writing future texts in notepad, or disabling all formatting options in Word.
If you want to quickly try to edit the bullet points of this article in Word, you can use the "find and replace" option to find - and replace it with *^s.
http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Comment_formatting
While I agree with this point, I think it applies to most of the techniques that you listed.
Thank you for your formatting suggestions.
I tried to copy "text only" from Word, I'm not sure if this is the same as ctrl+shift+v.
I think I'll just write future posts in notepad and then format on Less Wrong, very good suggestion.