I’ve had the experience of finding your writing very annoying, but then coming around. On the basis of this, I have a suggestion: I don’t think you’re going to get the signaling thing right. Bostrom is good at that because he’s an academic and that involves years and years of signal training, and heavy selection on that basis.
I ceased to be annoyed by your writing when it occurred to me that no one in the world, nor all of us together, could subject you to a greater hell of ridicule than you will if you don’t make some significant progress on this FAI thing in your lifetime. My urge to adjust your sense of status evaporated when I realized I don’t need to put a sword over your head, because the sword you put there is bigger than any I could come up with.
Your rhetorical and personal assets are sincerity and passion. These are undermined by glibness and irony, and appeals to status. So I suggest avoiding these things, rather than working on a more professional style.
If you’ll forgive unasked for advice:
I’ve had the experience of finding your writing very annoying, but then coming around. On the basis of this, I have a suggestion: I don’t think you’re going to get the signaling thing right. Bostrom is good at that because he’s an academic and that involves years and years of signal training, and heavy selection on that basis.
I ceased to be annoyed by your writing when it occurred to me that no one in the world, nor all of us together, could subject you to a greater hell of ridicule than you will if you don’t make some significant progress on this FAI thing in your lifetime. My urge to adjust your sense of status evaporated when I realized I don’t need to put a sword over your head, because the sword you put there is bigger than any I could come up with.
Your rhetorical and personal assets are sincerity and passion. These are undermined by glibness and irony, and appeals to status. So I suggest avoiding these things, rather than working on a more professional style.