Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Open Thread: June 2010 - Less Wrong
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Any recommendations for how much redundancy is needed to make ideas more likely to be comprehensible?
There's a general rule in writing that if you don't know how many items to put in a list, you use three. So if you're giving examples and you don't know how many to use, use three. Don't know if that helps, but it's the main heuristic I know that's actually concrete.
I'm not sure I follow. Could you give a couple more examples of when to use this heuristic?