I’m definitely a crank, but I personally feel like I’m onto something?
That quite common for cranks ;)
If the ideas you want to propose are unorthodox, try to write in the most orthodox style in the venue you are addressing.
Look at how posts that have high karma are written and try to write your own post in the same style.
Secondly, you can take your post and tell ChatGPT that you want to post it on LessWrong and ask it what problems people are likely to have with the post.
Well, that’s the problem. I’ve been writing in a combination of my personal voice and my understanding of Eliezer’s voice. Eliezer has enough accumulated Bayes points that he is allowed to use parables and metaphors and such. I do not.
Probably the first, as much as this is the “wrong” answer to your question for the LessWrong crowd.
I would be pretty pissed off if my proposed solution to the alignment problem was attributed to someone who hasn’t gone through what I went through in order to derive it. Especially if that solution ended up being close enough to correct to form a cornerstone of future approaches to the problem.
I’m going to continue to present my ideas in the most appealing package I can devise for them, but I don’t regret posting them to LessWrong in the chaotic fashion that I did.
If you want your proposed solution attributed to you, writing it in a style that people actually want to engage with instead of “your personal voice”, would be the straightforward choice.
Larry McEnerney is great at explaining what writing is about.
Well, perhaps we can ask, what is reading about? Surely it involves reading through clearly presented arguments and trying to understand the process that generated them, and not presupposing any particular resolution to the question “is this person crazy” beyond the inevitable and unenviable limits imposed by our finite time on Earth.
There’s a lot of material to read. Part of being good at reading is spending one’s attention in the most effective way and not wasting it with low-value content.
That’s fair, and I need to do a better job of building on-ramps for different readers. My most recent shortform is an attempt to build such an on-ramp for the LessWrong memeplex.
That quite common for cranks ;)
If the ideas you want to propose are unorthodox, try to write in the most orthodox style in the venue you are addressing.
Look at how posts that have high karma are written and try to write your own post in the same style.
Secondly, you can take your post and tell ChatGPT that you want to post it on LessWrong and ask it what problems people are likely to have with the post.
Well, that’s the problem. I’ve been writing in a combination of my personal voice and my understanding of Eliezer’s voice. Eliezer has enough accumulated Bayes points that he is allowed to use parables and metaphors and such. I do not.
What do you care more about? Getting to write in “your personal voice” or getting your ideas well received?
Probably the first, as much as this is the “wrong” answer to your question for the LessWrong crowd.
I would be pretty pissed off if my proposed solution to the alignment problem was attributed to someone who hasn’t gone through what I went through in order to derive it. Especially if that solution ended up being close enough to correct to form a cornerstone of future approaches to the problem.
I’m going to continue to present my ideas in the most appealing package I can devise for them, but I don’t regret posting them to LessWrong in the chaotic fashion that I did.
If you want your proposed solution attributed to you, writing it in a style that people actually want to engage with instead of “your personal voice”, would be the straightforward choice.
Larry McEnerney is great at explaining what writing is about.
Well, perhaps we can ask, what is reading about? Surely it involves reading through clearly presented arguments and trying to understand the process that generated them, and not presupposing any particular resolution to the question “is this person crazy” beyond the inevitable and unenviable limits imposed by our finite time on Earth.
There’s a lot of material to read. Part of being good at reading is spending one’s attention in the most effective way and not wasting it with low-value content.
That’s fair, and I need to do a better job of building on-ramps for different readers. My most recent shortform is an attempt to build such an on-ramp for the LessWrong memeplex.