I feel like I would live on the internet if I had a successful version of the PMTMYLW business model, haha.
On a more serious note, one of the most important arts of epistemically valuable writing is finding a way to communicate your meaning densely without leaving any room for misinterpretation. Propositions which aren’t obvious to everyone, and which some interpret as super weapons or some other kind of false but locally advantageous belief infrastructure will naturally attract criticism.
This is an inherently difficult task, but not writing spaghetti code posts in the first place can prevent a lot of debugging and vulnerability patching later as people attack one’s posts both for good and bad faith reasons.
The incentive problem here is that spaghetti code posts with vulnerabilities drive disagreement, and disagreement is a form of engagement, and thus bad writing is incentivized by social media for gaining an audience and shaping the Overton Window of discourse.
I feel like I would live on the internet if I had a successful version of the PMTMYLW business model, haha.
On a more serious note, one of the most important arts of epistemically valuable writing is finding a way to communicate your meaning densely without leaving any room for misinterpretation. Propositions which aren’t obvious to everyone, and which some interpret as super weapons or some other kind of false but locally advantageous belief infrastructure will naturally attract criticism.
This is an inherently difficult task, but not writing spaghetti code posts in the first place can prevent a lot of debugging and vulnerability patching later as people attack one’s posts both for good and bad faith reasons.
The incentive problem here is that spaghetti code posts with vulnerabilities drive disagreement, and disagreement is a form of engagement, and thus bad writing is incentivized by social media for gaining an audience and shaping the Overton Window of discourse.
Yep, agreed; see for instance Ruling Out Everything Else.