Curated! I was hesitant about this one for a while because Ray is staff, but I do think it ultimately is doing a quite impressive thing where it is at least a bit successfully communicating a whole worldview and perspective on the art of rationality, and that kind of content I think makes up a large fraction of the most impactful writing on LessWrong.
It does have the problem of being long, and not necessarily keeping its pace all-throughout. I do recommend that readers feel free to skip sections and start skimming as they get bored. Maybe that’s wrong, but it helped me.
I like the post a lot for being honest in a way that few other writing is. I think it in some contributes to its somewhat meandering nature, but I do feel like while reading the post my mind learns a bit more to conform itself to the shape of Ray’s thoughts, which at the very least is helpful for modeling Ray, but also helpful in as much as Ray has learned at least some things that you the reader have not yet learned, or in as much as you are facing problems for which Ray’s mind is better suited than your own, which I do think is probably true.
Curated! I was hesitant about this one for a while because Ray is staff, but I do think it ultimately is doing a quite impressive thing where it is at least a bit successfully communicating a whole worldview and perspective on the art of rationality, and that kind of content I think makes up a large fraction of the most impactful writing on LessWrong.
It does have the problem of being long, and not necessarily keeping its pace all-throughout. I do recommend that readers feel free to skip sections and start skimming as they get bored. Maybe that’s wrong, but it helped me.
I like the post a lot for being honest in a way that few other writing is. I think it in some contributes to its somewhat meandering nature, but I do feel like while reading the post my mind learns a bit more to conform itself to the shape of Ray’s thoughts, which at the very least is helpful for modeling Ray, but also helpful in as much as Ray has learned at least some things that you the reader have not yet learned, or in as much as you are facing problems for which Ray’s mind is better suited than your own, which I do think is probably true.