IlyaShpitser comments on Open thread, Dec. 1 - Dec. 7, 2014 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: IlyaShpitser 05 December 2014 09:41:04PM *  2 points [-]

Manfred, I think your posts on Sleeping Beauty, etc. are fine, people just may not be able to follow you or have anything to contribute.

Comment author: Manfred 06 December 2014 12:54:23AM *  0 points [-]

Thanks. So would you recommend that for the new stuff I use those sorts of 3/4-baked stream of consciousness posts?

Comment author: IlyaShpitser 06 December 2014 03:29:44PM *  1 point [-]

The way I do the equivalent of what you are doing is write up something in various stages of "less than fully baked" and send to someone I know is interested/I respect in private, and have a chat about it. What's nice about that is it exploits the threat of embarrassment of outputting nonsense to force me to at least "bake" it sufficiently to have a meaningful conversation about it. It's very easy to output nonsense.

But I am skeptical regarding the wiki model of generating good novel stuff -- there's too much noise.