I prefer your style (rather, I really dislike Eliezer’s style). Possible data points: I read a lot of math: math blogs, math texts, math papers, and I have poor reading comprehension and reading speed. I don’t have a particularly short or long attention span, and I don’t really read much science or philosophy. I didn’t get a whole lot of epiphanies from the sequences, though it did have a strong influence on how I think (ie. my updates weren’t felt as epiphanies).
I like the structure of your writing. I like to build my mental categories from the top down, and structured writing helps me put things in mental buckets. For quite a while after reading the sequences, the whole idea of rationality was a big muddle of concepts and I had a hard time thinking about it as a whole. I had to think it over and do all the categorization by myself, which was a lot of work, and I don’t think I benefited enough from having to do that to justify the exercise.
I prefer your style (rather, I really dislike Eliezer’s style). Possible data points: I read a lot of math: math blogs, math texts, math papers, and I have poor reading comprehension and reading speed. I don’t have a particularly short or long attention span, and I don’t really read much science or philosophy. I didn’t get a whole lot of epiphanies from the sequences, though it did have a strong influence on how I think (ie. my updates weren’t felt as epiphanies).
I like the structure of your writing. I like to build my mental categories from the top down, and structured writing helps me put things in mental buckets. For quite a while after reading the sequences, the whole idea of rationality was a big muddle of concepts and I had a hard time thinking about it as a whole. I had to think it over and do all the categorization by myself, which was a lot of work, and I don’t think I benefited enough from having to do that to justify the exercise.