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> the idea is to have a combination of the Socratic method of dialogue based teaching combined with a few consistently written characters This is, of course, h
by pxc 4y ago
> the idea is to have a combination of the Socratic method of dialogue based teaching combined with a few consistently written characters
This is, of course, how the original Socratic dialogues are written, too! There are characters with distinctive personalities and points of view who (re)appear in multiple dialogues.
Maybe a lot of STEM folks here have never read Plato or other/later philosophical dialogues, or they never got a sense for how they can be useful. Maybe how it's interleaved with the main body of text is confusing for people as well?
Either way, I think the main idea of the format is good. Maybe some small formatting tweaks or a link at the top like 'how to read this document' would help get new readers to grok the format.
- mulmen 4y agoReminds me of Bob and Alice.
- xena 4y agoI'm gonna work on the CSS on stream this weekend. It's something that usually comes up in bad faith so I haven't really prioritized acting on it. However I think I finally understand enough CSS to do it properly.
- xena 4y agoFixed on stream. The CSS looks a bit better now.
- pxc 4y agoIt looks good to me! It's easier for me to tell that the main body is totally separate from the dialogue now. (Before, I wasn't totally sure if the main body was just one of the people in the dialogue monologuing sometimes, although I usually assumed it wasn't.) Very readable, still fits with the theme, and helps clarify the genre. :)