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Writing On The Pareto Frontier - LessWrong

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Comment by dynomight - I have two thoughts related to this: First, there's a dual problem: Given a piece of writing that's along the Pareto frontier, how do you make it easy for readers who might have a utility function aligned with the piece to find it. Related to this, for many people and many pieces of writing, a large part of the utility they get is from comments. I think this leads to dynamics where a piece where the writing that's less optimal can get popular and then get to a point on the frontier that's hard to beat.

x Writing On The Pareto Frontier — LessWrong Writing (communication method) Pareto Efficiency Practical Frontpage 78 Writing On The Pareto Frontier by johnswentworth 17th Sep 2021 4 min read 12 78 I have a personal rule: don’t write something which someone else has already written better. This is easier than it sounds. For instance, suppose I’m writing an intro to systems biology. I don’t need it to be the most comprehensive intro ever written, or the most accessible intro. I just need it to be good enough on each of these axes that no other work is better on both at once. In other words, I tr

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