Congratulations on your first LessWrong post! :) (Well, almost first)
As a piece of feedback, I will note that I found the “Rosenberg’s crux” section pretty hard to read, because it was quite dense.
I feel like if I would’ve have read the original letter exchange, I could then have turned to this post, and gone “a-ha!” In other words, it felt like a useful summary, but didn’t give me the original generators/models, such that I could pass the intellectual Turing test of what Dennett and Rosenberg actually believe.
By comparison, I think the section on the “cryptographer’s constraint” was clearer; since it was more focused on elaborating on a particular principle and why it was important, along with considering some concrete examples more in depth.
> I will note that I found the “Rosenberg’s crux” section pretty hard to read, because it was quite dense.
Yeah, you’re right—thanks for the concrete feedback !
I wasn’t originally planning to make this a public post and later failed to take a step back and properly model what it would be like as a reader without the context of having read the letter exchange.
I consider adding a short intro paragraph to partially remedy this.
Congratulations on your first LessWrong post! :) (Well, almost first)
As a piece of feedback, I will note that I found the “Rosenberg’s crux” section pretty hard to read, because it was quite dense.
I feel like if I would’ve have read the original letter exchange, I could then have turned to this post, and gone “a-ha!” In other words, it felt like a useful summary, but didn’t give me the original generators/models, such that I could pass the intellectual Turing test of what Dennett and Rosenberg actually believe.
By comparison, I think the section on the “cryptographer’s constraint” was clearer; since it was more focused on elaborating on a particular principle and why it was important, along with considering some concrete examples more in depth.
Thanks :)
> I will note that I found the “Rosenberg’s crux” section pretty hard to read, because it was quite dense.
Yeah, you’re right—thanks for the concrete feedback !
I wasn’t originally planning to make this a public post and later failed to take a step back and properly model what it would be like as a reader without the context of having read the letter exchange.
I consider adding a short intro paragraph to partially remedy this.
Makes sense! An intro paragraph could be good :)