I struggle to get through Yvain’s posts; it’s like trying to sit through a social psychology lecture delivered by Fluttershy. All ability to focus is blotted out by eeee I want to hug the author
I am still interested in some good examples of Yvain’s posts which invoked this reaction from you, I have been reading somewhat more of his writing recently and though I often agree with his points, I don’t recall feeling such explicit urges.
Could you please provide some good examples which trigger this effect?
I haven’t read more than ten or so of Yvain’s blog posts so my sample size might explain why I haven’t observed it yet.
I didn’t answer the poll because I prefer Luke’s style for instrumental rationality topics and Eliezer’s for epistemic rationality topics. It was unclear to me how I should have answered the questions.
Unless you can do that with the raw poll data, but that just confused me.
Thankfully, the data is not quite that crippled! The data is reported in a… ‘long’ format, I think the term is, where each row is a single poll item response with a unique ID for the respondent. If you want to look at that sort of question, it’s up to you to aggregate the data correctly (eg with grep). You can see this by looking at particular unique IDs, say that of Leonhart and anonymous respondent 11:
There’s 5 entries for each, since there were 5 poll items, and and each poll item has its own unique ID as well. So if you wanted to know the relationship of an answer on poll item #538 and #541 based on how subjects answered #538, you’d get a list of everyone answered “0” in #538, and pull out their answer for #541 as well. That sort of thing.
(And now that I’m the topic, I wonder where my own writings fall, and how I would even know if I were insufficiently writing like Eliezer/Luke/Yvain.)
I like the your non-fiction style a lot (don’t know your fictional stuff). I often get the impression you’re in total control of the material. Very thorough yet original, witty and humble. The exemplary research paper.
Definitely more Luke than Yvain/Eliezer.
I voted “both equally”, but really I want Eliezer to continue writing in Eliezer’s style and Luke to keep writing in Luke’s style! Mostly I prefer reading factual things written in Luke’s style, but Eliezer’s style really seems to work for the sequences.
I put myself down for not reading a lot of fiction, but I was torn on that question, because while my book list is almost entirely nonfiction now, a few years ago it would have been the opposite.
Do you prefer...
[pollid:538]
Do you read a lot of fiction?
[pollid:539]
Your background?
[pollid:540]
Do you consider yourself to have an epiphany addiction?
[pollid:541]
Bonus question
[pollid:542]
[X] Yvain’s style
I struggle to get through Yvain’s posts; it’s like trying to sit through a social psychology lecture delivered by Fluttershy. All ability to focus is blotted out by eeee I want to hug the author
I was concerned about this comment right up until the end, at which point I discovered that I had really enjoyed it intensely the whole time.
I am still interested in some good examples of Yvain’s posts which invoked this reaction from you, I have been reading somewhat more of his writing recently and though I often agree with his points, I don’t recall feeling such explicit urges.
PMed you because of reasons
Could you please provide some good examples which trigger this effect? I haven’t read more than ten or so of Yvain’s blog posts so my sample size might explain why I haven’t observed it yet.
I didn’t answer the poll because I prefer Luke’s style for instrumental rationality topics and Eliezer’s for epistemic rationality topics. It was unclear to me how I should have answered the questions.
I propose that another bonus question be added, one about preferred method of eating corn.
This poll does not show how people from one category voted in another, which is precisely the relationship that Lukeprog was looking for.
Unless you can do that with the raw poll data, but that just confused me.
Thankfully, the data is not quite that crippled! The data is reported in a… ‘long’ format, I think the term is, where each row is a single poll item response with a unique ID for the respondent. If you want to look at that sort of question, it’s up to you to aggregate the data correctly (eg with
grep). You can see this by looking at particular unique IDs, say that ofLeonhartand anonymous respondent11:There’s 5 entries for each, since there were 5 poll items, and and each poll item has its own unique ID as well. So if you wanted to know the relationship of an answer on poll item #538 and #541 based on how subjects answered #538, you’d get a list of everyone answered “0” in #538, and pull out their answer for #541 as well. That sort of thing.
(And now that I’m the topic, I wonder where my own writings fall, and how I would even know if I were insufficiently writing like Eliezer/Luke/Yvain.)
I like the your non-fiction style a lot (don’t know your fictional stuff). I often get the impression you’re in total control of the material. Very thorough yet original, witty and humble. The exemplary research paper. Definitely more Luke than Yvain/Eliezer.
I thought somebody else had previously done such analysis with raw poll data? But maybe I’m mistaken.
I voted “both equally”, but really I want Eliezer to continue writing in Eliezer’s style and Luke to keep writing in Luke’s style! Mostly I prefer reading factual things written in Luke’s style, but Eliezer’s style really seems to work for the sequences.
I put myself down for not reading a lot of fiction, but I was torn on that question, because while my book list is almost entirely nonfiction now, a few years ago it would have been the opposite.