On: Why is every rationalist blog post way too long?

[throwayay58373]

What the author here misses is that the verbosity is often a signal of work done.

It's like the "alternatives considered" section in a design doc or RFC: it shows you've thought through different approaches, considered trade-offs, etc. It's a little like showing your work combined with taking the reader on a journey.

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Precisely the signal that has been lost since the advent of LLMs. Voluminous work has now almost become synonymous with a signal of no effort.