Mass_Driver comments on Book Review: The Root of Thought - Less Wrong

47 Post author: Yvain 22 July 2010 08:58AM

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Comment author: Mass_Driver 24 July 2010 03:39:13AM 4 points [-]

No, I think Cyan is right. Have you read Eliezer's "A Technical Explanation of Technical Explanation?" You may wish to write "A Lay Explanation of Lay Explanation." I would certainly read and probably vote up such an article.

Comment author: SilasBarta 24 July 2010 03:02:31PM 1 point [-]

I don't see, though, how I'm describing a different kind of explanation, or a distinctly lay one. The explanation standards I'm giving are what you would need to give for a technical explanation as well, in the case where your listener starts from a point of less knowledge about your field (i.e. a far nepocu).

The technical explanation only differs in terms of its greater detail (afaict -- you may mean something else); it doesn't change in type.