simplicio comments on Think Before You Speak (And Signal It) - Less Wrong

23 Post author: Wei_Dai 19 March 2010 10:21PM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (39)

You are viewing a single comment's thread.

Comment author: simplicio 20 March 2010 03:57:36AM *  1 point [-]

This is probably a good idea in general. However, there is likely an advantage to discussing an idea reasonably soon, rather than letting it bounce around too long in the echo chambers of one's own head. When I've tutored freshman physics, I like my students to explain concepts back to me; it's a good way to see if they understand the connections between ideas or are just doing algebra - or worse, have developed a preliminary distorted "theory" of physics (what's the gravitational potential energy of the earth wrt the sun? oh, that's easy. E=mgh).

But I think it's an excellent idea for this community. (5 min).