komponisto comments on An Introduction To Rationality - Less Wrong

11 Post author: kerspoon 20 October 2013 02:43AM

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Comment author: komponisto 20 October 2013 01:10:22PM 6 points [-]

I, on the other hand, like the "telegraphic" writing style of the post (for all that I might recommend various tweaks here and there), and am happy to see this material in this form. (Just to list one advantage of such a style, it tends to produce texts with a high degree of "skimmability").

Lately I've been inclining toward the view that, given human psychological diversity, there really is no such thing as too many different pedagogical texts on a given subject. So rather than encouraging this author to change the style of this post, I would sooner encourage them or (more likely) someone else to write another one if the need is felt.

Comment author: kerspoon 20 October 2013 04:40:06PM 2 points [-]

Thanks for the encouragement. I have written another article but I will wait a week to post it. It again is written in a very "telegraphic" style.