I observe that some people benefit from short introductions to get their consciousness (or stream-of-consciousness or whatever) into the right place within their own mental space and be able to run and process what they’re reading at a better pace.
For some subjects this is certainly the case for me—for instance, formal mathematics seems to be in a relatively separate mental / memory cluster in my mind that is rather far from other clusters, and takes a bit more priming for me to get into, while other people seem to comparatively be instantly “there” and understand what is going on even when you spring mathematical equations at the edge of their understanding on them while they were wondering what socks to wear.
So I don’t feel that it adds to the post’s content, but I feel that it is still potentially useful for some readers in order to better absorb and more easily process said content.
First, I would like to say “thank you” to all the people working on keeping this site running and helping it make increasingly more awesome! This obviously includes pretty much everyone who comments, posts and writes here, but particularly also the folks at Trikeapps, and everyone who contributes updates to the site’s codebase.
Then add on something like “Here are some particularly noteworthy things that happened in 2012:”
First, I would like to say “thank you” to all the people working on keeping this site running and helping it make increasingly more awesome! This obviously includes pretty much everyone who comments, posts and writes here, but particularly also the folks at Trikeapps, and everyone who contributes updates to the site’s codebase.
Then add on something like “Here are some particularly noteworthy things that happened in 2012:”
I enjoyed the post, but I’m confused by the first paragraph. Does it add to the post to have an explicit justification?
I observe that some people benefit from short introductions to get their consciousness (or stream-of-consciousness or whatever) into the right place within their own mental space and be able to run and process what they’re reading at a better pace.
For some subjects this is certainly the case for me—for instance, formal mathematics seems to be in a relatively separate mental / memory cluster in my mind that is rather far from other clusters, and takes a bit more priming for me to get into, while other people seem to comparatively be instantly “there” and understand what is going on even when you spring mathematical equations at the edge of their understanding on them while they were wondering what socks to wear.
So I don’t feel that it adds to the post’s content, but I feel that it is still potentially useful for some readers in order to better absorb and more easily process said content.
Probably not, but I felt that it needed some introduction. And I’m bad at writing introductions.
Hardly; you already wrote a fine introduction:
Then add on something like “Here are some particularly noteworthy things that happened in 2012:”
Only on less wrong is a new years retrospective justified using game theory ;)
I chuckled slightly at the “schelling point” line and thought the introduction was fine.
Hardly; you already wrote a fine introduction:
Then add on something like “Here are some particularly noteworthy things that happened in 2012:”