MatthewB comments on "Outside View!" as Conversation-Halter - Less Wrong

49 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 24 February 2010 05:53AM

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Comment author: MatthewB 26 February 2010 09:27:50AM 0 points [-]

I always love reading Less Wrong. I am just sometimes confused, for many days, about what exactly I have read. Until, something pertinent comes along and reveals the salience of what I had read, and then I say "OH! Now I get it!"

At present, I am between those two states... Waiting for the Now I get it moment.

Comment author: gwern 06 October 2010 08:56:55PM 1 point [-]

Perhaps it would be better to wait until you get it and then post about how you got it, than to comment that you don't get it. That would be much more interesting to read.

Comment author: MatthewB 16 October 2010 11:33:49AM 0 points [-]

But, it would also not have the function of letting others who may struggle with certain concepts of knowing that they were not alone in struggling.