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

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Comment author: Erik 20 March 2010 10:58:59AM 2 points [-]

To convey an idea that is obvious in retrospect, an idea you can be confident in immediately

Solutions to hard puzzles are good examples of these. NP-problems, where finding a solution is (believed to be) exponentially harder than checking the correctness of it, is the extreme case.

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