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SquirrelInHell comments on Clean work gets dirty with time - Less Wrong Discussion

2 Post author: Romashka 31 July 2016 07:59PM

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Comment author: SquirrelInHell 01 August 2016 10:44:30AM 4 points [-]

Let me give some feedback about your writing style, which I find consistently cryptic. You tend to describe your thoughts starting in the middle and giving the context later, or skipping it altogether. E.g. the fist sentence reads

I find myself more and more interested in how the concept of "systematized winning" can be applied to a large group of people who have one thing in common, and that not even time, but - in my own very personal case - ...

Until this point, a context like "biology research" etc. does not appear anywhere, and a "large group of people who have one thing in common" could be all people who like ice cream. It is of course possible to decipher what you mean, but by writing in reverse order you make it unnecessarily hard.

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Possibly, a part of the problems you are describing could be solved by storing all the raw data that is collected during research, not just conclusions. In some cases, the amount of data might pose technological problems, but humanity's capacity to store information cheaply is increasing very quickly. So we can just let the future generations analyse the data by themselves, if they care to do so.

Comment author: Romashka 17 August 2016 07:32:25PM 0 points [-]

Edited a bit. If you could PM me a couple of words on what else to change, I'd be grateful.

Comment author: MrMind 05 August 2016 07:38:31AM 0 points [-]

I suspect part of the problem is Romashka's first language not being English, and s/he is adapting idioms in her/his native language translating them literally.