but at least it makes some attempt to engage with why readers didn’t find the post valuable.
I don’t think so. To me, his list sounds like trying to understand reasons why the post is judged negatively.
People get trained in school and university to write without any considerations for whether or not their writing is valuable and get graded in a way that’s independent of the value provided by an essay. The essay gets read by the teacher because the teacher is paid to read it and not because it provides them with other value.
On the other hand, when writing posts on LessWrong it matters whether or not the reader gets value from reading it.
Larry McEnerney does a good job at laying out the difference:
I don’t think so. To me, his list sounds like trying to understand reasons why the post is judged negatively.
People get trained in school and university to write without any considerations for whether or not their writing is valuable and get graded in a way that’s independent of the value provided by an essay. The essay gets read by the teacher because the teacher is paid to read it and not because it provides them with other value.
On the other hand, when writing posts on LessWrong it matters whether or not the reader gets value from reading it.
Larry McEnerney does a good job at laying out the difference: