More disclaimers would not really help, it just makes it harder to read. If you’re adding more than one or two disclaimers to your writing, maybe it needs a rewrite more than it needs more disclaimers. If you reframed this as a conversation between two parties and didn’t imply that anyone on LW necessarily agreed with one or the other, that might help. E.g., I found the jump to cryonics in the OP very jarring, but I could much more readily believe that someone might make that leap than that most people would.
Anyway, don’t be too discouraged by the poor reception this piece got. It’s difficult to write anything that will pass the LW crowd unscathed.
Thanks for the critique; the dialog format would have been much more appropriate. I am actually surprised how few karma I’ve lost over my first article. I was fully expecting a −100 or so.
I may just be speaking for myself here, but...
More disclaimers would not really help, it just makes it harder to read. If you’re adding more than one or two disclaimers to your writing, maybe it needs a rewrite more than it needs more disclaimers. If you reframed this as a conversation between two parties and didn’t imply that anyone on LW necessarily agreed with one or the other, that might help. E.g., I found the jump to cryonics in the OP very jarring, but I could much more readily believe that someone might make that leap than that most people would.
Anyway, don’t be too discouraged by the poor reception this piece got. It’s difficult to write anything that will pass the LW crowd unscathed.
Thanks for the critique; the dialog format would have been much more appropriate. I am actually surprised how few karma I’ve lost over my first article. I was fully expecting a −100 or so.