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Optimizing Styles
TheSinceriousOne00

This is good detail. Thank you for it. I have made adjustments. Most importantly, to the first paragraph, and a transition before the YouTube paragraph.

I'm not reading what you said as a promise to help me iterate, and don't want you to think you're obligated. I have already gotten value as-is. But if you want to compare with the original, it's still unmodified in the copy on my blog for now.

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Optimizing Styles
TheSinceriousOne00

I'm not feeling motivated to add a new introductory paragraph. Here are some of my reasons:

  1. Unclear what is wrong, what particularly caused you to be confused.
  2. Priors about tradeoffs with level of repetition colliding with my ideas about my target audience.
  3. Priors about how many iterations it takes to make it much less confusing colliding with guesses about the feedback loop I'd get from trying to alleviate your confusion. How many times would you respond? How much detail would you respond in? How fast would it be? How long would I have to spend checking
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1shev
If it helps -- I don't understand what the second half (from the part about Youtube videos onwards) has to do with fighting or optimizing styles. I also didn't glean what an 'optimizing style' is, so I think the point is lost on me. Regardless of your laundry list of reasons not to edit your post, you should read "I'm confused about what you wrote" comments, if you believe them to be legitimate criticisms, as a sign that your personal filter on your own writing is not catching certain problems, so you might be highly benefitted by taking it as an opportunity to work on your filter so you can see what we see. Upgrading your filter on your own work leads to systematic improvement across all of your work instead of just improvements to the one we're talking about. If you're worried about responsiveness, you might get further by just asking for more detail before making changes instead of explaining, approximately, "I don't feel like making changes because I'm not convinced that it'll be a good use of my time or that I'll get more responses to make it successful". (I won't fault you for lacking motivation, of course not, that's the battle we all fight -- but I also suspect that you'd profit considerably from finding that motivation, since it might lead to systematic improvement of your writing.)
Thoughts on "Operation Make Less Wrong the single conversational locus", Month 1
TheSinceriousOne240

I started blogging recently. Some rationalists have apparently found it good. I would like to make these posts I'm writing contributions to the LessWrong project. I would like to cross-post instead of link my posts. But am only comfortable doing so under a pseudonym because of options I want to leave open for things to discuss on my blog.

I have therefore recently created this new account. I think I need 10 karma or something to post though. So, soon (TM). When I get around to posting some helpful comments to earn it.

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5gjm
It looks as if your decision to say "I will earn some karma" rather than "I am new here, please upvote this and give me some karma" has led to everyone upvoting your comment. I find this both amusing and pleasing.