Some Meta Thoughts on Ziz’s SchellingSequence, and “what kind of writing do I want to see on LW?” [note: if it were possible, I’d like to file this under “exploring my own preferences and curious about others’ take” rather than “attempting to move the overton window”. Such a thing is probably not actually possible though]
I have a fairly consistent reaction to Ziz posts (as well as Michael Vassar posts, and some Brent Dill posts, among others) which is “this sure is interesting but it involves a lot of effort to read and interpret.”
I think this is fine. I think a lot of interesting thoughts come out of frameworks that are deliberately living in weird, pseudo-metaphorical-but-not-quite worlds. I think being able to interpret and think about that is a useful skill (in general, and in particular for stepping out of social reality).
I think I have a preference for such posts to live in the community section, rather than front-page, but in my ideal world they’d go through a process of “explore things creatively in comments or community section”, followed by “think more critically about what kind of jargon and opaqueness is actually useful and which was just an artifact of low-friction thinking”, followed by “turn it into something optimized for public consumption”
Some Meta Thoughts on Ziz’s Schelling Sequence, and “what kind of writing do I want to see on LW?” [note: if it were possible, I’d like to file this under “exploring my own preferences and curious about others’ take” rather than “attempting to move the overton window”. Such a thing is probably not actually possible though]
I have a fairly consistent reaction to Ziz posts (as well as Michael Vassar posts, and some Brent Dill posts, among others) which is “this sure is interesting but it involves a lot of effort to read and interpret.”
I think this is fine. I think a lot of interesting thoughts come out of frameworks that are deliberately living in weird, pseudo-metaphorical-but-not-quite worlds. I think being able to interpret and think about that is a useful skill (in general, and in particular for stepping out of social reality).
I think I have a preference for such posts to live in the community section, rather than front-page, but in my ideal world they’d go through a process of “explore things creatively in comments or community section”, followed by “think more critically about what kind of jargon and opaqueness is actually useful and which was just an artifact of low-friction thinking”, followed by “turn it into something optimized for public consumption”