There are a number of posts here where people try to tell a story, to provide some sort of intuition pumping. Eliezer did it a lot and it worked for him. Assume you are not as good a writer, and stick to the business/academic writing format.
Start with a summary of your post (ideally, the post title should be an even shorter summary, e.g. “Alignment approach MOOSE fails on the dataset FORREST”), then a brief background and motivation, then your central point, then add a conclusion. Do not force the reader to go through a story (“you wake up in a windowless room, unsure of what is going on...”) before they get to see your point, if any.
This is not a hard and fast rule, but a decent default.
Write posts business-like, not story-like
There are a number of posts here where people try to tell a story, to provide some sort of intuition pumping. Eliezer did it a lot and it worked for him. Assume you are not as good a writer, and stick to the business/academic writing format.
Start with a summary of your post (ideally, the post title should be an even shorter summary, e.g. “Alignment approach MOOSE fails on the dataset FORREST”), then a brief background and motivation, then your central point, then add a conclusion. Do not force the reader to go through a story (“you wake up in a windowless room, unsure of what is going on...”) before they get to see your point, if any.
This is not a hard and fast rule, but a decent default.