Tyrrell_McAllister comments on Over-encapsulation - Less Wrong

18 Post author: PhilGoetz 25 March 2010 05:58PM

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Comment author: Tyrrell_McAllister 25 March 2010 11:25:54PM *  2 points [-]

We have 16 comments so far, and all of them are about image hosting.

This is not an easily skimmable post. Readers could absorb it much more easily if you cooked up a simple toy example — something that can be grasped without digesting six bar graphs with noisy real-world data in them.

Comment author: PhilGoetz 26 March 2010 12:14:48AM *  1 point [-]

Do you know the story of the boy who helped the butterfly?

If someone can't follow the argument with a step-by-step explanation, they're never going to detect it in the wild.

(Okay, my true objection is that would require more work.)