ChristianKl comments on What Makes My Attempt Special? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: ChristianKl 26 September 2010 09:38:39PM 3 points [-]

9) Your question combines insides from many different fields and there aren't many people around who are interested in the same fields.

Comment author: hegemonicon 27 September 2010 03:42:59PM 1 point [-]

This seems especially likely to me, given the vastness of scientific literature. It can be generalized to "your question requires a knowledge combination that is somewhat unlikely to exist."

Somewhat related: The Fish-Scale Model of Omniscience