case in point: you urging that i fall back on convention (“standard essay format”) to conform to this community. in fact, it’s precisely why i even used the llm in the first place.
why is it that a raw, unrefined post albeit able to make a clear argument, cite sources, etc should be rejected because of formatting? it would appear optics are more important than ideas, no?
If the post is able to make a clear argument, that’s almost all that matters. If you think your loose collections of thoughts do make a clear argument, then that might be sufficient for an EA Forum post. Why I recommended “more of a standard essay format” is that this tends to be what makes an argument clear to the people reading.
The ideas are important, but communicating your ideas so that people can easily understand them is also important. You need both for a good essay, article, or blog, or for a good EA Forum post.
case in point: you urging that i fall back on convention (“standard essay format”) to conform to this community. in fact, it’s precisely why i even used the llm in the first place.
why is it that a raw, unrefined post albeit able to make a clear argument, cite sources, etc should be rejected because of formatting? it would appear optics are more important than ideas, no?
If the post is able to make a clear argument, that’s almost all that matters. If you think your loose collections of thoughts do make a clear argument, then that might be sufficient for an EA Forum post. Why I recommended “more of a standard essay format” is that this tends to be what makes an argument clear to the people reading.
The ideas are important, but communicating your ideas so that people can easily understand them is also important. You need both for a good essay, article, or blog, or for a good EA Forum post.