FiftyTwo comments on The Neglected Virtue of Scholarship - Less Wrong

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Comment author: scav 06 January 2011 03:55:02PM 20 points [-]

getting to the "state of the art"/minimum level of knowledge required to speak intelligently, avoid "solved problems", and not run into "already well refuted ideas" is a very expensive process.

So is spending time and effort on solved problems and already well refuted ideas.

Comment author: FiftyTwo 10 October 2011 12:57:55AM 4 points [-]

True. But there are also personal benefits to working on problems (increased cognitive ability, familiarity with useful methods, etc.) that arise even if the problem itself is already 'solved.'

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