Perplexed comments on Compartmentalization in epistemic and instrumental rationality - Less Wrong

77 Post author: AnnaSalamon 17 September 2010 07:02AM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (121)

You are viewing a single comment's thread. Show more comments above.

Comment author: Relsqui 19 September 2010 12:17:34AM *  2 points [-]

By the by, is this a vote for or against making an actual post on this subject (or neither)? I'm trying to get a sense of whether that would be acceptable and useful; I've gotten a handful of upvotes on comments about it, but I don't know if that means to go ahead or not. (This is an area of local etiquette I'm not yet familiar with and don't particularly want to take the karma hit for messing up.)

Comment author: Perplexed 19 September 2010 01:31:52AM *  0 points [-]

I'll vote for making a post.

I like your characterization of what is "wrong" with the sequences, but I'm not sure what ought to be done about it. I suspect that different people need to read different sequence postings. I would like to have the introduction pages for each sequence be expanded to provide roughly a paragraph of description for each posting in the sequence. If you disagree with the paragraph or don't understand it, then you should probably read that posting.

ETA: After reading Will's comment, I will withdraw my vote. Proceed with caution.

Comment author: Relsqui 19 September 2010 03:51:53AM 0 points [-]

I suspect that different people need to read different sequence postings.

I agree; that's one of the things I wanted to discuss (and something my solution would theoretically address). I might try to find another useful place to put my longer writeup of the subject, e.g. my own talk page on the wiki.