I vote for writing a summary, and including it with the last post of the sequence. That way, extra-skeptical people can wait until the sequence has been posted in its entirety before deciding to read it based on the summary, without losing much expected value.
I think in practice what would happen is the skeptical people would disagree on each post, and then when presented with the summary would be compelled to disagree with it in order to remain consistent.
You’re right; that sounds like a likely failure unless skeptics could proactively choose to hide that sequence until they could read the summary; which the current LW codebase doesn’t support.
I vote for writing a summary, and including it with the last post of the sequence. That way, extra-skeptical people can wait until the sequence has been posted in its entirety before deciding to read it based on the summary, without losing much expected value.
There will without a doubt at least be a summary toward the end of the sequence.
I think in practice what would happen is the skeptical people would disagree on each post, and then when presented with the summary would be compelled to disagree with it in order to remain consistent.
You’re right; that sounds like a likely failure unless skeptics could proactively choose to hide that sequence until they could read the summary; which the current LW codebase doesn’t support.