People who routinely employ the phrase tl;dr believe they are optimizing for scarce attention but I think, based on substantial experience with it, that they are mostly pessimizing for depth of thought.
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This is true both as a consumer and as a producer of arguments: Don't favor the form factor over the correctness. That is an *expensive* preference to have over the long run.
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I am not opposed to e.g. executive summaries or writing well. I'm opposed to teaching people that most professional output is purposeless makework. That is *also* a very expensive preference to have over the long run.
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