I am glad that I didn’t realize that people could still reply to the post after I deleted it, since its nice receiving the last responses quite a bit later after I am no longer triggered by the initial general response.
I think the reason that my writing is coming off to you this way is that I have moved into a very different mental space than the Less Wrong community, and forgot the degree to which I needed to tune my thinking/writing for Less Wrongers to understand/appreciate my messages.
Less Wrongers are used to talking to people who think and speak in the way that people think and speak on this site. I don’t read Less Wrong personally, only post to it. I’ve read some of the sequences, and I have spent years speaking in person on a regular basis with many high profile Less Wrongers, but the way in which people read and write on the blog is kind of like a foreign language to me, which I am currently rusty at.
Likewise with the cultural expectations about what I should be delivering and how.
I’m considering attempting a rewrite, but not sure if I want to or not. What would my incentive be to do so? So far I have received contempt and criticism for my attempt to communicate what I consider to be some very useful principles. Why should I keep trying?
In order to get it right, I need to wrap my head around the Less Wrong way of thinking again, and figure out how to translate everything I’m saying into something that people on this site will understand. That is quite a lot of work. I really hate this culture of tearing things apart when you don’t understand rather than asking questions and being curious about what signal the author is attempting to send. I’m genuinely not sure if I want to engage it again or not.
Its a large time and energy investment to word a post in a way that does not get shredded in this environment
I don’t tend to receive much in the way of positive feedback or appreciation for doing it
I will almost certainly receive a lot in the way of negative feedback regardless—potentially quite a lot
Pros
I might be able to share something with someone else that creates value for them
Having a reasonable reputation in the community could be good for my business
I might receive some positive reinforcement
I ended up deciding to do a rewrite of one of the fundamental underlying principles of this post into a new post, which is almost done. It has been something that has been many hours of work. A lot more work than I had anticipated to get the post up to snuff where I think it is less likely to get shot down than this original post.
The amount of work it took to get to a point where it might be acceptable to LWers is unlikely to be balanced by the pros, so I am leaning toward it being my last post, although I am very open to having my utility function show me otherwise.
I am glad that I didn’t realize that people could still reply to the post after I deleted it, since its nice receiving the last responses quite a bit later after I am no longer triggered by the initial general response.
I think the reason that my writing is coming off to you this way is that I have moved into a very different mental space than the Less Wrong community, and forgot the degree to which I needed to tune my thinking/writing for Less Wrongers to understand/appreciate my messages.
Less Wrongers are used to talking to people who think and speak in the way that people think and speak on this site. I don’t read Less Wrong personally, only post to it. I’ve read some of the sequences, and I have spent years speaking in person on a regular basis with many high profile Less Wrongers, but the way in which people read and write on the blog is kind of like a foreign language to me, which I am currently rusty at.
Likewise with the cultural expectations about what I should be delivering and how.
I’m considering attempting a rewrite, but not sure if I want to or not. What would my incentive be to do so? So far I have received contempt and criticism for my attempt to communicate what I consider to be some very useful principles. Why should I keep trying?
In order to get it right, I need to wrap my head around the Less Wrong way of thinking again, and figure out how to translate everything I’m saying into something that people on this site will understand. That is quite a lot of work. I really hate this culture of tearing things apart when you don’t understand rather than asking questions and being curious about what signal the author is attempting to send. I’m genuinely not sure if I want to engage it again or not.
What do you consider the pros and cons?
Cons
Its a large time and energy investment to word a post in a way that does not get shredded in this environment
I don’t tend to receive much in the way of positive feedback or appreciation for doing it
I will almost certainly receive a lot in the way of negative feedback regardless—potentially quite a lot
Pros
I might be able to share something with someone else that creates value for them
Having a reasonable reputation in the community could be good for my business
I might receive some positive reinforcement
I ended up deciding to do a rewrite of one of the fundamental underlying principles of this post into a new post, which is almost done. It has been something that has been many hours of work. A lot more work than I had anticipated to get the post up to snuff where I think it is less likely to get shot down than this original post.
The amount of work it took to get to a point where it might be acceptable to LWers is unlikely to be balanced by the pros, so I am leaning toward it being my last post, although I am very open to having my utility function show me otherwise.