In the past, I have found distillations posts extremely helpful. I wonder if part of that is because when someone currently attempts it, they’re doing it because they’re correctly judging that: 1) it’s important, and 2) they’ll do it well. Probably as it becomes more common, one or both of these will stop being true as often.
I don’t write that frequently, but I think I would do 1-2 distillments per year if it was more socially encouraged / rewarded.
I do expect there to be some signal/noise tradeoffs. But one hope is that karma can address this pretty straightforwardly – good distillations will get upvoted and endorsed by the authors, mediocre ones less so.
In the past, I have found distillations posts extremely helpful. I wonder if part of that is because when someone currently attempts it, they’re doing it because they’re correctly judging that: 1) it’s important, and 2) they’ll do it well. Probably as it becomes more common, one or both of these will stop being true as often.
I don’t write that frequently, but I think I would do 1-2 distillments per year if it was more socially encouraged / rewarded.
I do expect there to be some signal/noise tradeoffs. But one hope is that karma can address this pretty straightforwardly – good distillations will get upvoted and endorsed by the authors, mediocre ones less so.