You’re getting downvoted without feedback so I’ll try to provide some.
The post does not provide any particular insight, it’s a disparate collection of quotes. The same and more can be gotten by googling ‘Einstein quotes’. Some ideas about how you can make the post more insightful:
Connect the quotes to uncover Einstein’s worldview and approach to his work and life
Give your personal thoughts about the quotes, its caveats and nuance
Explain what Einstein means a little more as some quotes don’t really mean much without context/explanation
Also, Einstein’s brilliance was in his physics, none of those quotes really touch on that. In fact, his worldview outside of physics is not that sophisticated, especially relative to his work in physics which is as sophisticated as it gets. Some of those quotes are also quite obviously wrong e.g. the one about having no special talents is wrong even if it wasn’t self-contradictory. Perhaps focusing on his work and how he did it would provide more value as that’s what he was best at.
OP might be some sort of content farming sockpuppet. No activity other than this post, and this was posted within a minute of a (now deleted) similarly vacuous post from a different account with no prior site activity as well.
speculating, but perhaps establishing presence and getting karma is the purpose of this post. And if it was upvoted, than future posts (on many sites, not LW, because it has a smaller and more active voting populace and much more aware admins) will be able to contain spam without being auto-filtered.
Well, I hope you’re right because I’d feel bad if someone tried to write something useful for us and it was so bad the comments are just speculation about whether the person is a spammer.
I’ll keep on assuming people are actually trying though and try to provide constructive feedback and encouragement because the demand for LW posts outstrips supply. Even if the person is a spammer, perhaps being more encouraging and constructive will make others who are hesitant to post more comfortable. And if the person is not a spammer, they can use the feedback to improve on their next post and hopefully iterate until their posts become really good.
You’re getting downvoted without feedback so I’ll try to provide some.
The post does not provide any particular insight, it’s a disparate collection of quotes. The same and more can be gotten by googling ‘Einstein quotes’. Some ideas about how you can make the post more insightful:
Connect the quotes to uncover Einstein’s worldview and approach to his work and life
Give your personal thoughts about the quotes, its caveats and nuance
Explain what Einstein means a little more as some quotes don’t really mean much without context/explanation
Also, Einstein’s brilliance was in his physics, none of those quotes really touch on that. In fact, his worldview outside of physics is not that sophisticated, especially relative to his work in physics which is as sophisticated as it gets. Some of those quotes are also quite obviously wrong e.g. the one about having no special talents is wrong even if it wasn’t self-contradictory. Perhaps focusing on his work and how he did it would provide more value as that’s what he was best at.
OP might be some sort of content farming sockpuppet. No activity other than this post, and this was posted within a minute of a (now deleted) similarly vacuous post from a different account with no prior site activity as well.
What would be the purpose of doing such a thing? There is no link in the writeup which would indicate farming backlinks for SEO
speculating, but perhaps establishing presence and getting karma is the purpose of this post. And if it was upvoted, than future posts (on many sites, not LW, because it has a smaller and more active voting populace and much more aware admins) will be able to contain spam without being auto-filtered.
Well, I hope you’re right because I’d feel bad if someone tried to write something useful for us and it was so bad the comments are just speculation about whether the person is a spammer.
I’ll keep on assuming people are actually trying though and try to provide constructive feedback and encouragement because the demand for LW posts outstrips supply. Even if the person is a spammer, perhaps being more encouraging and constructive will make others who are hesitant to post more comfortable. And if the person is not a spammer, they can use the feedback to improve on their next post and hopefully iterate until their posts become really good.