Thanks, this comment gives me a much better sense of where you’re coming from. I agree and disagree with various specific points, but I won’t get into that since I don’t think we will resolve any disagreements without an extended discussion.
What I will say is that I found this comment to be much more enlightening than your original post. And whereas I said before that the original article didn’t feel like the output of a reasoning process, this comment did feel like that. At least for me personally, I think whatever mental process you used to write this comment is what you should use to write these sorts of articles, because whatever process you used to write this comment, it worked.
I don’t know what’s going on inside your head, but if I were to guess, perhaps you didn’t want to write an article in the style of this comment because it’s too informal or personal or un-authoritative. Those qualities do make it harder to (say) get a paper published in an academic journal, but I prefer to read articles that have those qualities. If your audience is the EA Forum or similar, then I think you should lean into them.
However I did occasionally feel like I was ~LARPing research writing when I was trying to articulate my thoughts, and suspect some of that never got resolved!
I don’t think you were LARPing research, your comment shows a real thought process behind it. After reading all your line item responses, I feel like I understand what you were trying to say. Like on the few parts I quoted as seeming contradictory, I can now see why they weren’t actually contradictory and they were part of a coherent stance.
Thanks, this comment gives me a much better sense of where you’re coming from. I agree and disagree with various specific points, but I won’t get into that since I don’t think we will resolve any disagreements without an extended discussion.
What I will say is that I found this comment to be much more enlightening than your original post. And whereas I said before that the original article didn’t feel like the output of a reasoning process, this comment did feel like that. At least for me personally, I think whatever mental process you used to write this comment is what you should use to write these sorts of articles, because whatever process you used to write this comment, it worked.
I don’t know what’s going on inside your head, but if I were to guess, perhaps you didn’t want to write an article in the style of this comment because it’s too informal or personal or un-authoritative. Those qualities do make it harder to (say) get a paper published in an academic journal, but I prefer to read articles that have those qualities. If your audience is the EA Forum or similar, then I think you should lean into them.
I don’t think you were LARPing research, your comment shows a real thought process behind it. After reading all your line item responses, I feel like I understand what you were trying to say. Like on the few parts I quoted as seeming contradictory, I can now see why they weren’t actually contradictory and they were part of a coherent stance.