SilasBarta comments on David Deutsch: A new way to explain explanation - Less Wrong

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Comment author: SilasBarta 02 November 2009 09:58:10PM *  2 points [-]

Of course you can't recap the whole talk, but you can describe the critical part. Very few good ideas actually need a full fifteen minutes to express. Look at what my post did for the talk: explained Deutsch's phrasing of Occam's razor. That's the critical part people were wondering about, and the explanation I gave sufficed to tell those people whether the talk would be worth their time.

It seems summarizing is a lost art.

Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 02 November 2009 10:22:53PM 0 points [-]

I disagree that what you singled out here is critical.

Comment author: SilasBarta 02 November 2009 11:22:38PM 1 point [-]

The title of this top-level post is: "David Deutsch: A new way to explain explanation".

That makes Deutsch's explanation of explanation critical.

Which is why I slogged through the video to get to it and save everyone else the time.