Username comments on Rationality Quotes Thread July 2015 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Username 30 July 2015 02:46:32PM 1 point [-]

It’s much better to write the piece that you want to read yourself, which usually means pitching the technical content at a level slightly higher than you were comfortable with when you started thinking about it.

Inapplicable when you're writing about natural sciences for layman audience.

Comment author: johnswentworth 03 August 2015 07:21:43AM 1 point [-]

Apparently, Davies thinks that half the time the layman audience isn't really there, and the rest of the time, they're not interested in a watered-down version of the real natural sciences. Even if you succeed, all that you achieve is that now a bunch of morons don't understand the natural sciences and think that you agree with them.