Just saw a Moldbug length comment left on Scott Alexander's review of DeBoer's book, and I was reminded of that bell curve meme w 70 and 150 IQ people agreeing. 70, 150: "3 sentences is enough" 100: "nooooooo, my 100,000 words!!!"
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Replying to @MorlockP
The french writer and mathematician Pascal, who was an absolute genius wrote once a letter starting by: "I'm writing a long letter, for I don't have the time to write a short one". It says it all. Concision is a gift of intellect; verbosity acts as a smokescreen for bullshit
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Replying to @pjsempe
oh, yes, I'm quite familiar with that quote ; timeless`
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