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4 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 18 September 2015 09:53PM

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Comment author: taygetea 19 September 2015 12:45:24AM 8 points [-]

Unrelated to this particular post, I've seen a couple people mention that all your ideas as of late are somewhat scattered and unorganized, and in need of some unification. You've put out a lot of content here, but I think people would definitely appreciate some synthesis work, as well as directly addressing established ideas about these subproblems as a way of grounding your ideas a bit more. "Sixteen main ideas" is probably in need of synthesis or merger.

Comment author: Stuart_Armstrong 19 September 2015 05:47:49AM 5 points [-]

I agree. I think I've got to a good point to start synthesising now.

Comment author: Gunnar_Zarncke 20 September 2015 12:55:42AM 3 points [-]

I don't think this is a very charitable view. I admit that I did propose to add a Wiki page for structure, but not because of a lack of quality but rather the opposite because I see that this as a very valuable albeit dry matter.

I wished more people would pick up on this important FAI (or rather UFAI-prevention) work. Can somebody propose ideas how to improve takeup? I will start with one: Reduce perceived dryness by adding examples or exercises.