Sorry, I did not intend my comment to rub you the wrong way (or any of my previous comments that might have). FWIW, I think that you are doing a lot of good stuff for the SIAI, probably most of it invisible to an ordinary forum regular. I realize that you cannot afford spending extra two hours per post on polishing the message. Hopefully one of the many skills of your soon-to-be-hired executive assistant will be that of “optimizing presentation”.
It might be an interesting exercise to record predictions in a hidden-but-reliable form about karma of posts six months out, by way of calibrating one’s sense of how well-received those posts will be to their target community.
It’s still better than the posts I write in 2 hours! Did that 2 hours include the time spent researching, or were you just citing sources you’d already read for other reasons? In either case...not bad.
Note that I wrote this post in two hours flat and made little attempt to optimize presentation in this case.
Sorry, I did not intend my comment to rub you the wrong way (or any of my previous comments that might have). FWIW, I think that you are doing a lot of good stuff for the SIAI, probably most of it invisible to an ordinary forum regular. I realize that you cannot afford spending extra two hours per post on polishing the message. Hopefully one of the many skills of your soon-to-be-hired executive assistant will be that of “optimizing presentation”.
No worries!
Indeed. Much invisible work is required before optimization can occur. Invisible forging of skills precedes their demonstration.
For my own reference, here are the posts I tried to write well:
Secure Your Beliefs
Optimal Philanthropy for Human Beings
A Rationalist’s Tale
Existential Risk
Rationality Lessons Learned from Irrational Adventures in Romance
What Curiosity Looks Like
Can the Chain Still Hold You?
It might be an interesting exercise to record predictions in a hidden-but-reliable form about karma of posts six months out, by way of calibrating one’s sense of how well-received those posts will be to their target community.
It’s still better than the posts I write in 2 hours! Did that 2 hours include the time spent researching, or were you just citing sources you’d already read for other reasons? In either case...not bad.