army1987 comments on Wise Pretensions v.0 - LessWrong

7 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 20 February 2009 05:02PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 07 November 2013 07:31:22PM 0 points [-]

I prefer the first Orwell quote to the second, but the 2009 post to the 2006 post. The colourful style is more aesthetically appealing, but it's tiring to read more than a few sentences of it, whereas the cold style is much easier (for me) to skim.