I appreciate your feedback!
I agree that lucidity is a fairly subjective trait, but I don't find that to be unique. Virtually all traits describing people are subjective. There is no measure for charismatic, curious, or witty. Even traits like intelligence that do come with a measure like IQ are imperfectly approximated at best.
I think I misleadingly portrayed lucidity as being A. a social trait and B. a synonym for charismatic.
The bit on pathologies is interesting and I hadn't considered that! A great point.
James avoided trouble by being lucid, perhaps I wasn't overly clear about that. I think more examples about the ways where lucidity could help or harm would be beneficial.
Overall, this is helpful for my future essays, and I really appreciate your feedback!
I wrote a post about the trait of Lucidity, which is something I've been thinking about for a while now. I think it will be of particular interest to this crowd, and would love to hear your thoughts on the concept and how it might relate to other LW aspects.
Specifically, I would love to hear:
1. Whether you concur that such a distinct trait exists?
2. How does Lucidity overlaps and interact with with other aspects like rationalism or post-rat?
3. What are some other hallmarks of Lucidity?
I'd also really appreciate any general tips on writing as I begin my foray into publicly writing! Thanks in advance.
>Thanks, I'm glad my guess at how to balance critical and constructive came across okay :)
It did indeed :) Thanks for playing with this idea with me
>If you let the reader guess how the trait should be measured for comparison, it's likely that they'll assume a metric other than the one you had in mind.
Agreed!
>When I read your post, I got the strong impression that detecting lucidity is a social process...
Detecting lucidity is largely a social process, but lucidity itself is not merely a social trait. As you correctly identify with the laundromat example, somebody's action may appear lucid without possessing the underlying trait. In order to actually discern lucidity, you need... (read more)