For me, writing for one specific person, who is almost guaranteed to read what I wrote, is also stimulating. When writing an article, I often feel like talking to an empty room. As a result, I don’t write many articles.
Still, writing articles would probably be a better use of my time, because I often find myself repeating the same things in different 1:1 interactions. (Or perhaps to collect old comments on the same topic, and rewrite them as an article afterwards.) I just haven’t found a way to align my emotions with this.
I guess I wanted to say that “articles > comments” regardless of one’s emotions (assuming one can write good articles). Unless the comment can be made short, or responds to something new. But “new” is impossible to judge from outside; we don’t know what kinds of questions Eliezer gets repeatedly e.g. outside LW.
For me, writing for one specific person, who is almost guaranteed to read what I wrote, is also stimulating. When writing an article, I often feel like talking to an empty room. As a result, I don’t write many articles.
Still, writing articles would probably be a better use of my time, because I often find myself repeating the same things in different 1:1 interactions. (Or perhaps to collect old comments on the same topic, and rewrite them as an article afterwards.) I just haven’t found a way to align my emotions with this.
I guess I wanted to say that “articles > comments” regardless of one’s emotions (assuming one can write good articles). Unless the comment can be made short, or responds to something new. But “new” is impossible to judge from outside; we don’t know what kinds of questions Eliezer gets repeatedly e.g. outside LW.