RobinZ comments on Rationality advice from Terry Tao - Less Wrong

17 Post author: Kaj_Sotala 10 November 2009 05:17PM

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Comment author: RobinZ 10 November 2009 05:32:44PM *  2 points [-]

It would be good to summarize your selected links in your post - perhaps a sentence each. They are good posts, but clicking through to them is inconvenient.

Edit: Five bonus points for anyone who sees something wrong with the above.

Comment author: Kaj_Sotala 10 November 2009 06:05:42PM 1 point [-]

Good idea. Done.

Comment author: spriteless 10 November 2009 06:09:01PM 0 points [-]

The links are a sentence fragment describing the conclusion, and you linked a site that I am just proactive enough to mouse over and see the convenient name in the bar at the bottom of the webpage without summarizing it? Hmm, I'd link to a programming blog that gets more in-depth about user lazyness instead of a less wrong post, is the inbred community links what's wrong?

Comment author: RobinZ 10 November 2009 07:20:12PM 0 points [-]

No, it was simply that I criticized Kaj_Sotala for posting links without summarizing by posting a link I didn't summarize. You're right that it's not as big a deal for people familiar with the post from the title, but...

(p.s. the "inconvenient" link describes how a trivial inconvenience - like finding an internet proxy or sending an email before posting - can act quite effectively as a major barrier to an action. Implied is that following the links to see what Kaj_Sotala is reviewing positively is a similar inconvenience, and therefore might lead to the post being unfairly ignored.)