It doesn’t read as persuasion-coded to me. In fact it reads as stream-of-consciousness musing that defeats its own opening point.
What if everyone actually is a perfectly rational actor?
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Rationality is expertise with the universe we live in.
You’re wondering what if everyone has perfect expertise with the universe we live in? Furthermore this is somehow linked to fake praise, your strong distrust for authority figures who tell you things without explaining their reasoning, and the idea that muscle-tension works as a variably-obvious signalling mechanism to yourself as well as to others?
Well maybe this makes internal sense to you, but it looks incoherent to me.
I was going for a style of writing I’m familiar with in explaining useful things—question to conclusion, I don’t know the formal name for it—and then I wrote the title last, so that people who already knew the core point wouldn’t need to waste time getting the evidence.
I’m not sure excluding this style from LessWrong actually improves Less Wrong’s efficiency at sharing useful knowledge? Tagging it better would be good, of course.
It doesn’t read as persuasion-coded to me. In fact it reads as stream-of-consciousness musing that defeats its own opening point.
You’re wondering what if everyone has perfect expertise with the universe we live in? Furthermore this is somehow linked to fake praise, your strong distrust for authority figures who tell you things without explaining their reasoning, and the idea that muscle-tension works as a variably-obvious signalling mechanism to yourself as well as to others?
Well maybe this makes internal sense to you, but it looks incoherent to me.
I was going for a style of writing I’m familiar with in explaining useful things—question to conclusion, I don’t know the formal name for it—and then I wrote the title last, so that people who already knew the core point wouldn’t need to waste time getting the evidence.
I’m not sure excluding this style from LessWrong actually improves Less Wrong’s efficiency at sharing useful knowledge? Tagging it better would be good, of course.
So the style is based around making assertions, and if people don’t think the point is obvious, they ask for evidence/ask what you mean?
Do you have any (other) examples of the style?