“I like numbered arguments, since that makes it easier to respond to individual points. But unnumbered bullet lists are just hard to parse.”
[Alas, the LessWrong website currently doesn’t enable this very well because our Rich Editor’s implementation of numbered lists was annoying]
I don’t much like writing in bullet points myself, but sometimes it’s useful for particular purposes, and having good numbering, especially hierarchical numbering, would make being able to respond to bullet points really nice. For example, I once wrote a post (can’t seem to find it now, so maybe it was a comment? closest example I could find was this) where I laid out numbered claims and conclusions to try to make it easier for people to engage with each one independently. Having numbering that looked like the following would be really nice:
I don’t much like writing in bullet points myself, but sometimes it’s useful for particular purposes, and having good numbering, especially hierarchical numbering, would make being able to respond to bullet points really nice. For example, I once wrote a post (can’t seem to find it now, so maybe it was a comment? closest example I could find was this) where I laid out numbered claims and conclusions to try to make it easier for people to engage with each one independently. Having numbering that looked like the following would be really nice:
1. top level
1.1 sub point
1.2 another sub point
1.2.1 sub sub point
2. another top level