denis_bider comments on Perpetual Motion Beliefs - Less Wrong

31 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 27 February 2008 08:22PM

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Comment author: denis_bider 27 February 2008 11:31:07PM 0 points [-]

Reading today's fare is a bit like eating unflavored oatmeal. :-)

It seems to me that the person who can read this and understand it, already knows it.

But the person who does not know it, cannot understand it and will be frustrated by reading it.

I'm not sure what your intention is with the whole series of posts, but if you'd like to enligthen the muggles, the trick is to explain it in a concise, striking, unusual, easily understood, entertaining manner.

Of course, that takes genius. :-)

But otherwise you are writing primarily for people who already know it.

In yet other words: some of your posts, I will forward to my wife. Others, I won't. This one is one of the latter.