Even within the pure feedback-egoist framework (really?) do you think people haven't had that post in mind in later discussions with you?
It's hard to tell, but if they have been influenced by that post, then considering the lack of adequate reception of the post in the first place, this probably didn't improve their understanding of my comments, and has perhaps even worsened it.
Also, I don't claim to be anywhere near the ideal of optimizing for feedback in practice. After all, "When vanity is not prompting us, we have little to say." But I would certainly change my posting patterns if I were convinced that it would improve feedback.
I also don't think that low returns from top-l...
Just giving a short table-summary of an article by James Shanteau on which areas and tasks experts developed a good intuition - and which ones they didn't. Though the article is old, the results seem to be in agreement with more recent summaries, such as Kahneman and Klein's. The heart of the article was a decomposition of characteristics (for professions and for tasks within those professions) where we would expert experts to develop good performance:
Static stimuli
Decisions about things
Experts agree on stimuli
More predictable problems
Some errors expected
Repetitive tasks
Feedback available
Objective analysis available
Problem decomposable
Decision aids common
Dynamic (changeable) stimuli
Decisions about behavior
Experts disagree on stimuli
Less predictable problems
Few errors expected
Unique tasks
Feedback unavailable
Subjective analysis only
Problem not decomposable
Decision aids rare
I do feel that this may go some way to explaining the expert's performance here.