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wit != rationality.
Also, I'm pretty sure the bias, if it exists, runs in the opposite direction. We even like calling our summaries "tl;dr"
Keep your wits about you. In Shakespeare's times the word meant "intelligence".
P.S. Someone explain the downmods to me. The parent either didn't know the saying was from Hamlet, or thought "wit" meant "humor" in this context.
Too many cooks spoil the broth, but many hands make light work. Can someone please explain to me why this broth, made by far too many cooks, was both labour-intensive and delicious?
"Brevity is the soul of wit" is an idiom, not some sort of undisputed fact. Your question doesn't highlight an interesting contradiction; at best it will be interpreted as a weak play on words, and at worst it will be interpreted as trolling.
I take issue with both of your claims!
Sure, wit isn't rationality, but I suspect it can be quite the rationality enhancer.
And I assign high probability to the existence of a "long post bias", though I'm not sure it's higher at LW relative to other places. It may not be a bias, though; Paul Graham, for example, says that long comments are generally better than short ones, and this seems to be obviously true in general. In terms of posts, I'm not so sure. I would have upvoted the grandparent comment of this if it weren't rude (how hypocritical of me).