Qazzquimby Shortform

I imagine it would depend on sensory perception. If there is a text written by an obvious robot, it would have little emotional impact. But seeing a human face and hearing a human voice -- even if I know it is a robot -- would feel differently. Or possibly a "magical talking animal" like in anime, that might nicely address my objection that it is not an actual human.

Most advice is contraindicated for some people, so if it's not a valid Law, it should only be called to attention, not all else equal given weight or influence beyond what calling something to attention normally merits. Even for Laws, there is no currently legible Law saying that people must or should follow them, that depends on the inscrutable values of Civilization. It's not a given that people should optimize themselves for being agents. So advice for being an effective agent [LW · GW] might be different from advice for being healthy or valuable, or understanding topos theory, or building 5 meters high houses of cards.

For perfectionism, I think never being satisfied with where you're at now doesn't mean you can't take pride in how far you've come?

"Don't feel complacent" feels different from "striving for perfection" to me. The former feels more like making sure your standards don't drop too much (maintaining a good lower bound), whereas the latter feels more like pushing the upper limit. When I think about complacency, I think about being careful and making sure that I am not e.g. taking the easy way out because of laziness. When I think about perfectionism (in the 12 virtues sense), I think about imagining ways things can be better and finding ways to get closer to that ideal.

I don't really understand the 'argument' virtue so no comment for that.

I'm sure it'd be a value to some, and a distraction or misleading to others.  The problem with summarizing is that you have to decide what to leave out or gloss over, and different readers are coming from different places of prior knowledge and expectation.

I don't think lowering the barrier to entry can ever be bad, but I also think that the barriers are multidimensional and "lowering" isn't very well-defined in a general sense.  

For my own reference, and to make it easier for me to refer people to 'the sequences' generally, I'd love to see something between an index and a summary.  Basically, a topic index with a paragraph or so of description for each sequence, and a line or two describing the content of each post in a sequence.