I’ve been reading The Craft of Research; I don’t know if you’ve read it, but apparently even people who have done lots of research, like you, have found it useful, and there are chapters on the implicit social roles taken on by the reader and researcher. That seems to be a thing that’s affected your reception here in the past; you have a role for yourself and your audience, your audience has a role for themselves and you, the two assignments aren’t compatible, and confusion and upset result.
That brings me to a larger point, with regards to your perspective on improving your communication skills. I’m sure there are things that apply to communication with all individuals, but I also don’t think it’s like raising a Charisma/Charm/Speechcraft Stat. So maybe sometimes it’s better to view the process piecemeal: “How can I communicate better with an average LW user/a particular LW user/this particular person I know in physical life?” as opposed to “How can I communicate better?” which might sometimes be too general to be useful.
There are meta-principles that are relevant to learning how to communicate with any group of people, that I’m just starting to learn. Reaching the LW community would be a great starting point, but only makes a small dent in the general problem of knowledge of how to think about the world mathematically in general being very rare, in juxtaposition with the fact that far more people are capable of learning than are currently learning.
I’ve been reading The Craft of Research; I don’t know if you’ve read it, but apparently even people who have done lots of research, like you, have found it useful, and there are chapters on the implicit social roles taken on by the reader and researcher. That seems to be a thing that’s affected your reception here in the past; you have a role for yourself and your audience, your audience has a role for themselves and you, the two assignments aren’t compatible, and confusion and upset result.
That brings me to a larger point, with regards to your perspective on improving your communication skills. I’m sure there are things that apply to communication with all individuals, but I also don’t think it’s like raising a Charisma/Charm/Speechcraft Stat. So maybe sometimes it’s better to view the process piecemeal: “How can I communicate better with an average LW user/a particular LW user/this particular person I know in physical life?” as opposed to “How can I communicate better?” which might sometimes be too general to be useful.
Thanks.
There are meta-principles that are relevant to learning how to communicate with any group of people, that I’m just starting to learn. Reaching the LW community would be a great starting point, but only makes a small dent in the general problem of knowledge of how to think about the world mathematically in general being very rare, in juxtaposition with the fact that far more people are capable of learning than are currently learning.