Vladimir_Nesov comments on Towards a New Decision Theory - Less Wrong

50 Post author: Wei_Dai 13 August 2009 05:31AM

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Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 16 August 2009 10:28:49PM 1 point [-]

Yeah, and math is very helpful as an explanation tool, because people can reconstruct the abstract concepts written in formulas correctly on the first try, even if math seems unnecessary for a particular point. Illusion of transparency of informal explanation, which is even worse where you know that formal explanation can't fail.