Vladimir_Nesov comments on An idea: Sticking Point Learning - Less Wrong

10 Post author: cousin_it 08 September 2009 09:52AM

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Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 08 September 2009 12:47:15PM 0 points [-]

In what way is this different from the existing technical texts on Wikipedia? The answer to your question: they don't become transparent from all the links. It's like learning a language: having a dictionary doesn't allow you to understand the text very well.

Comment author: cousin_it 08 September 2009 01:10:46PM *  0 points [-]

Wikipedia is a very good reference for the topics it does cover, but it doesn't go deep enough to do any kind of meaningful research. Even the reading material for this post of mine is only about 50% Wikipedia. Also, deletionism and the "no original research" rule probably won't allow us to add our topics to Wikipedia.