1. It’s unclear what my point is, why I’m framing things the way I do, and what my ultimate motivation is.
Writing is not about the writer and his motivations but about whether the writing provides value for the reader.
Generally, the more charged a topic happens to be, the less free you are in the form of addressing it. If you want to have a good discussion about religion on LessWrong don’t spend your weirdness points on being creative and using unusual style to make them.
In Politics Is The Mind-Killer, Yudkowsky describes how authors of artificial intelligence textbooks just don’t seem able to resist posing problems that take a swipe at Republicans. Similarly, Yudkowsky hasn’t been able to resist taking swipes at belief in God and religion throughout the Sequences.
The point of politics is the mindkiller is that if you talk about X and use a political example Y to illustrate X, your readers are more likely to focus on Y and not on X in general.
To the extend that you claim you have written an article titled ‘God is Great’ that’s about an X that’s not about religion and you expect, readers to instead have focused on the religious arguments you made, it seems like you did poorly at writing the post.
Writing is not about the writer and his motivations but about whether the writing provides value for the reader.
Generally, the more charged a topic happens to be, the less free you are in the form of addressing it. If you want to have a good discussion about religion on LessWrong don’t spend your weirdness points on being creative and using unusual style to make them.
The point of politics is the mindkiller is that if you talk about X and use a political example Y to illustrate X, your readers are more likely to focus on Y and not on X in general.
To the extend that you claim you have written an article titled ‘God is Great’ that’s about an X that’s not about religion and you expect, readers to instead have focused on the religious arguments you made, it seems like you did poorly at writing the post.