It does seem like Eliezer used a good amount of poetry, though the poetry usually had a different feeling to it, than my experiences of continental philosophy, which is also mostly poetry. I am not sure what the difference between these two types of poetry is, but I have allergic reactions to one of them, and not the other (and I do think both of them are closed to elephant-elephant communication than normal explanations).
I also think fictional storytelling is pretty good at facilitating elephant-to-elephant communication, which is one of the reasons why Eliezer wrote HPMOR, since I think he found that some rationality concepts where hard to communicate abstractly (based on a conversation I had with Brienne about this a while ago). In general, Brienne strikes me as quite good at facilitating elephant-to-elephant communication via text, without triggering most of my poetry allergies.
It does seem like Eliezer used a good amount of poetry, though the poetry usually had a different feeling to it, than my experiences of continental philosophy, which is also mostly poetry. I am not sure what the difference between these two types of poetry is, but I have allergic reactions to one of them, and not the other (and I do think both of them are closed to elephant-elephant communication than normal explanations).
I also think fictional storytelling is pretty good at facilitating elephant-to-elephant communication, which is one of the reasons why Eliezer wrote HPMOR, since I think he found that some rationality concepts where hard to communicate abstractly (based on a conversation I had with Brienne about this a while ago). In general, Brienne strikes me as quite good at facilitating elephant-to-elephant communication via text, without triggering most of my poetry allergies.