1/My web writing has been for a general audience. Coming from academia, learning to make difficult concepts accessible has been fascinating.
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2/What I most want to communicate is conceptually difficult. Over years I've gradually built a base of explanations that will support it.
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3/At my current rate of writing, I will never reach the main points. That implies hard choices about how to write, for what audience.
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4/The Buddhist ethics series https://meaningness.wordpress.com/2015/09/23/buddhist-ethics-is-a-fraud/ … starts out simple, but gradually assumes greater intellectual sophistication.
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5/I worried no one would understand the later material, but I've been gratified by the huge number of page views https://meaningness.wordpress.com/2015/10/12/developing-ethical-social-and-cognitive-competence/ … got
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6/Partly due to
@slatestarcodex http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/11/03/what-developmental-milestones-are-you-missing/ … (thanks, Scott!)1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
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7/And also the many intelligent comments on the more difficult, later posts in the series. This has encouraged me to change my approach.
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8/However,
@St_Rev is one of the smartest people I know, so if he finds https://meaningness.wordpress.com/2015/11/27/emptiness-form-and-dzogchen-ethics/ … difficult, I need to back it down a bit!2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
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9/The post does provide some entertainment to cushion the conceptual difficulties!https://twitter.com/The_Lagrangian/status/670336599213912064 …
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