Sniffnoy comments on Rationalist Hobbies - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Sniffnoy 18 February 2011 12:01:57AM 2 points [-]

Knitting - Trains your attention to fine detail. After you knit a pair of socks, whenever you wear knitted clothes you'll instinctively think, "I could make this. There are no great unknowable secrets in manufacturing, only time and labor."

Which quickly generalizes to any sort of physical making - woodworking, metalworking, etc.

Comment author: Tyrrell_McAllister 18 February 2011 09:18:11PM *  0 points [-]

Which quickly generalizes to any sort of physical making - woodworking, metalworking, etc.

Knitting is more like programming than woodworking and metalworking are, at least if you are designing your own knitting patterns. Knitting is a digitizable activity. To design a knitting pattern is to create an executable digital script, whose success is subject to digitizable constraints.