alicey comments on Self-Congratulatory Rationalism - Less Wrong

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Comment author: alicey 14 March 2014 11:29:40PM 0 points [-]

improving signal to noise, holding the signal constant, is brevity

when brevity impedes communication, but only with a subset of people, then the reduced signal is because they're not good at understanding brief things, so it is worth not being brief with them, but it's not fun