Shallow Feedback Hollows You Out

> writers who for a time seemed to be The Writer In the World Most In Touch With The Truth - Noam Chomsky, Sam Harris, Eliezer Yudkowsky, Curtis Yarvin, and Jordan Peterson.

Curtis Yarvin? Excuse me?

Re: Shallow Feedback Hollows You Out

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Post by thenipper » Wed, Jan 01, 2025, 5:26 AM UTC

andrewflnr wrote: post #4

> writers who for a time seemed to be The Writer In the World Most In Touch With The Truth - Noam Chomsky, Sam Harris, Eliezer Yudkowsky, Curtis Yarvin, and Jordan Peterson. Curtis Yarvin? Excuse me?

Jordan Peterson too. Putting Chomsky in the same sentence as those two is just insulting

Re: Shallow Feedback Hollows You Out

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Post by andrewflnr » Wed, Jan 01, 2025, 5:39 AM UTC

thenipper wrote: post #5

andrewflnr wrote: post #4

> writers who for a time seemed to be The Writer In the World Most In Touch With The Truth - Noam Chomsky, Sam Harris, Eliezer Yudkowsky, Curtis Yarvin, and Jordan Peterson. Curtis Yarvin? Excuse me?

Jordan Peterson too. Putting Chomsky in the same sentence as those two is just insulting

I've heard similar things, but I'm not familiar enough with Peterson to say for myself. I've read enough Yarvin.

Re: Shallow Feedback Hollows You Out

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Post by adamtaylor_13 » Wed, Jan 01, 2025, 6:40 AM UTC

Ironic how most of the comments here just cement the author’s position. Hollow feedback about his views on hollow feedback.

Re: Shallow Feedback Hollows You Out

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Post by impure » Wed, Jan 01, 2025, 8:05 AM UTC

I don't agree. You know recently I read this post critiquing my article saying how I have so many followers and it's probably because of my clickbait titles. No, that's just who I am. I don't think popularity changes writers that much. Humans tend to write about the same things over and over. So when you initially follow someone it feels new but after a while it gets predictable. Plus there's probably a bit of nostalgia in there too.

Re: Shallow Feedback Hollows You Out

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Post by strogonoff » Wed, Jan 01, 2025, 8:21 AM UTC

While “write to the single smartest person you know who cares a lot about your topic of interest” is a good advice, if you publish what you write this approach requires a healthy-to-unhealthy degree of sociopathy that becomes less common or tenable with age, by my subjective estimation.

Re: Shallow Feedback Hollows You Out

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Post by why_is_it_good » Wed, Jan 01, 2025, 9:33 AM UTC

andrewflnr wrote: post #4

> writers who for a time seemed to be The Writer In the World Most In Touch With The Truth - Noam Chomsky, Sam Harris, Eliezer Yudkowsky, Curtis Yarvin, and Jordan Peterson. Curtis Yarvin? Excuse me?

> Excuse me?

Really thoughtful comment, that shows us the core of your objection: nothing.

https://www.unqualified-reservations.org/2007/09/how-dawkins...