I just re-read this sequence. Babble has definitely made its way into my core vocabulary. I think of “improving both the Babble and Prune of LessWrong” as being central to my current goals, and I think this post was counterfactually relevant for that. Originally I had planned to vote weakly in favor of this post, but am currently positioning it more at the upper-mid-range of my votes.
I think it’s somewhat unfortunate that the Review focused only on posts, as opposed to sequences as a whole. I just re-read this sequence, and I think the posts More Babble, Prune, and Circumambulation have more substance/insight/gears/hooks than this one. (I didn’t get as much out of Write). But, this one was sort of “the schelling post to nominate” if you were going to nominate one of them.
The piece as a whole succeeds very much as both Art as well as pedagogy.
I just re-read this sequence. Babble has definitely made its way into my core vocabulary. I think of “improving both the Babble and Prune of LessWrong” as being central to my current goals, and I think this post was counterfactually relevant for that. Originally I had planned to vote weakly in favor of this post, but am currently positioning it more at the upper-mid-range of my votes.
I think it’s somewhat unfortunate that the Review focused only on posts, as opposed to sequences as a whole. I just re-read this sequence, and I think the posts More Babble, Prune, and Circumambulation have more substance/insight/gears/hooks than this one. (I didn’t get as much out of Write). But, this one was sort of “the schelling post to nominate” if you were going to nominate one of them.
The piece as a whole succeeds very much as both Art as well as pedagogy.