Yes. It did a lot of CoT. I don't recall how long. 

I am mostly surprised at the humor being more humory and less humor-like-substancy.

Normative claims describe desired world states. To the extent they are coherent and possible, they cannot be argued against. They are merely a shape the world could be. Descriptive statements make neutral claims about features of the world. Toy examples of each mistake:

"Having no legs is not good; I bet that crippled man has invisible legs."

"That crippled man has no legs; this must be the way of things and so just and right"

In practice, this tends to be done with themes and processes and not at such a crude, silly level. The stereotypical reactionary might identify selective processes, themselves, as ends. The stereotypical liberal might pretend selective processes don't exist. The reactionary may be right about his values, and then is not making a mistake here. But in many cases I think they are confusing the descriptive for the normative and do not value what they think they value. 

I moved it into my drafts. I published it again for you. I figured it was unlikely to be referenced again and I tend to take stuff down I don't want people reading as one of the first things on my author's page.

There is the classic error of conflating the normative with the descriptive, presuming that what is good is also true. But the inverse is also a mistake I see people make all the time: conflating the descriptive for the normative. The descriptive is subject to change by human action, so maybe the latter is the worse of the two mistakes. Crudely, the stereotypical liberal makes the former mistake and the stereotypical reactionary makes the latter. 

Yeah. I think you can post anything as a personal post, and the gods of LW may take a fancy to them, as is their preview, and put them on the front page. 

Thanks you so much!

I had a very wrong model of what quick takes are. I was thinking like, not good enough for a post, put it in a quick take. 

Thanks so much. I am trying to get one out per week, but I might be late again this week. 

Interesting; from my perspective, I got really lazy in the end. And another fellow told me yesterday the ending was awful. I do think it is the weakest thing I have posted recently, but people seem to really like it, so what do I know?

I am pretty happy with the last two: https://substack.com/@tomasbjartur

And I do plan to keep writing. I am having fun.