I think it might be worthwhile to write a little bit about your relationship with magic when you write a post like this. I know it but many readers likely don’t and that knowledge is significant for reading the article.
Raemon is on point here. I draw a distinction between ‘this post should go in Main, so I’m going to make sure it works in that context’ and ‘this is a DWATV post that will be copied to LW but not go to main’ where I basically don’t worry about it. It is possible my history is more necessary for this post than I realized, although I haven’t updated in that direction yet.
I agree the context would be helpful, but additional context worth remembering is that Zvi is actually writing this on his literal personal blog, getting automatically crossposted here to his LW personal blog, and I think it’d in fact feel weird in that context to explicitly spell out the history.
I think it might be worthwhile to write a little bit about your relationship with magic when you write a post like this. I know it but many readers likely don’t and that knowledge is significant for reading the article.
Raemon is on point here. I draw a distinction between ‘this post should go in Main, so I’m going to make sure it works in that context’ and ‘this is a DWATV post that will be copied to LW but not go to main’ where I basically don’t worry about it. It is possible my history is more necessary for this post than I realized, although I haven’t updated in that direction yet.
I agree the context would be helpful, but additional context worth remembering is that Zvi is actually writing this on his literal personal blog, getting automatically crossposted here to his LW personal blog, and I think it’d in fact feel weird in that context to explicitly spell out the history.