PhilGoetz comments on Over-encapsulation - Less Wrong

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

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Comment author: PhilGoetz 26 March 2010 01:06:52PM *  1 point [-]

I don't have an opinion on whether it occurred to the authors, and don't think there's any reason to form an opinion on that. If I didn't think it was an easy error to make, I wouldn't have written this post.

Comment author: wedrifid 29 March 2010 05:46:36AM 1 point [-]

and don't think there's any reason to form an opinion on that.

One reason is to increase one's understanding of how science and academia work in practice. Gaining such knowledge can be expected to improve one's ability to update in the correct manner when reading other papers. (And to make myself clear I'll add belief that there is no reason to form an opinion on that is something that is objectively false even though it a useful belief to signal.)