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comment by Raemon · 2019-01-08T19:48:29.309Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

Note: I had trouble reading this because of the formatting. Splitting into paragraphs would help significantly.

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comment by Gordon Seidoh Worley (gworley) · 2019-01-09T03:19:10.143Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

I feel similarly about the footnotes. My own philosophy is to avoid them at all cost, and only include them if I absolutely cannot find a way to make the information flow with the text AND I can't not include the information while serving whatever functions I'm trying to with the writing. It's perhaps a matter of style, but given the high footnote to body percentage, I'd have preferred it if you used fewer footnotes.

comment by Gordon Seidoh Worley (gworley) · 2019-01-09T03:20:05.028Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

So is another way of summarizing this to say "we created self-help to help us optimize ourselves for the society we created"?