gattsuru comments on What should normal people do? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: gattsuru 26 October 2013 03:51:33AM *  3 points [-]

Upvoted. Every time I'm tempted to provide a long post aimed at the general public, I've found it worthwhile to look at a math or biochemistry paper that is far outside of my knowledge domains -- the sort of stuff that requires you to go searching for a glossary to find the name of a symbol.

Sufficiently abstract writing feels like that to a significant amount of the populace, and worse, even Up-Goer 5-level writing looks like it will feel like that, to a lot of people who've been trained into thinking they're not good enough at this matter.

((I still tend to make a lot of long posts, because apparently I am a terrible person.))