The aged learn truer natures of humans & organizations. They should tell young what they've learned on those key issues, but rarely do.
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@ESYudkowsky Agreed; readers should have to expect to do some work to learn from writings of the experienced. -
@robinhanson That is an exceptionally optimistic view of failed writing. The key info simply isn't there, in my experience. -
@ESYudkowsky We can at least agree that older people who can write should tell young what they have learned re human/org natures. -
@robinhanson Yep. We agree info isn't there and would be nice to have, I just feel charitable about bad writing vs delib silence as reason. -
@robinhanson Further evidence: books on writing by writers are actually pretty detailed about key gotchas of people and orgs. -
@ESYudkowsky We seem to be more honest when writing howtos for people who may take our job someday, than when writing to others.
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@ESYudkowsky@robinhanson Much wisdom generalizes further than specific org, but not universal. In diverse society, harder to learn it all.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@ESYudkowsky@robinhanson "Rational" attacks on folkways developed from that wisdom limits ppl's ability to navigate society.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@ESYudkowsky@robinhanson Much of this knowledge was codified as "train", "conventional wisdom", etc.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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