Perhaps also, find examples of otherwise good posts that are not plain talk and attempt to paraphrase in plain talk. We need some protocol to mitigate offense, though.
Yeah, that’s tricky. For example, I considered pointing out that a plainer-talk version of “Any suggestions as to how that work might be incentivized?” might be “How do I encourage people to do that?” but wasn’t sure how that would be taken.
In general, the sentiment we want to convey seems to be, “That was interesting, informative, and precise. Here’s an attempt to make it more approachable:”
Though one good thing about this approach is that if other people don’t consider my plaintalkified version of X to be superior to X, and I do, that can be very educational… I may discover, for example, that what I consider to be virtues of plain talk aren’t universal and I’ve been other-optimizing all along.
Perhaps also, find examples of otherwise good posts that are not plain talk and attempt to paraphrase in plain talk. We need some protocol to mitigate offense, though.
Yeah, that’s tricky. For example, I considered pointing out that a plainer-talk version of “Any suggestions as to how that work might be incentivized?” might be “How do I encourage people to do that?” but wasn’t sure how that would be taken.
In general, the sentiment we want to convey seems to be, “That was interesting, informative, and precise. Here’s an attempt to make it more approachable:”
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Though one good thing about this approach is that if other people don’t consider my plaintalkified version of X to be superior to X, and I do, that can be very educational… I may discover, for example, that what I consider to be virtues of plain talk aren’t universal and I’ve been other-optimizing all along.