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116 Post author: RobinHanson 17 March 2009 01:39PM

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Comment author: anonym 17 March 2009 05:28:41PM 8 points [-]

One of the ways that I think that OB could have been better, and that I think LW could be more helpful, is to put a greater emphasis on practice and practical techniques for improving rationality in the writings here and to give many more real-life examples than we do.

When making a post that hints at any kind of a practical technique, posters could really make an effort to clearly identify the practical implications and techniques, to put all the practical parts together in the essay rather than mixing them throughout 15 paragraphs of justification and reasoning, and to highlight that practical part of the post.

The practical parts could be extracted and placed together somewhere in order to have one single place that people can go to easily find them. Perhaps the LW software could provide some kind of support for distinguishing the practice sections of a post, and the extraction and aggregation of the practical howto sections could be automated.

Comment author: Court_Merrigan 18 March 2009 02:09:48AM 1 point [-]

Hear, hear. Practice and practical techniques. Isn't that what we're after here?