Yvain comments on Diseased thinking: dissolving questions about disease - Less Wrong

236 Post author: Yvain 30 May 2010 09:16PM

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Comment author: sketerpot 31 May 2010 03:14:03AM *  12 points [-]

Someone once quipped about a Haskell library that "You know it's a good library when just reading the manual removes the problem it solves from your life forever." I feel the same way about this article. That's a compliment, in case you were wondering.

The one criticism I would make is that it's long, and I think you could spread this to other sites and enlighten a lot of people if you wrote an abridged version and perhaps illustrated it with silly pictures of cats.

Comment author: Yvain 31 May 2010 09:34:39PM 12 points [-]

Thank you very much. That's exactly the feeling I hoped people would have if this dissolved the question and it's great to hear.

I can't think of how to make this shorter without removing content (especially since this is already pitched at an advanced audience - anything short of LW and I'd have to explain status quo biases, preference reversal tests, and actually justify determinism).

I can, however, give you an lolcat if you want one.