nerzhin comments on Scholarship: How to Do It Efficiently - Less Wrong

113 Post author: lukeprog 09 May 2011 10:05PM

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Comment author: nerzhin 10 May 2011 08:18:41PM *  4 points [-]

I'm not sure it's controversial, but I disagree very slightly on the margin. All your points are good. However, if

  1. I have already read some papers from an author, and

  2. I trust that their abstracts are honest representations of their work, and

  3. I am not relying on their work as a basis for my own, but just pointing it out to my readers

I will cite it after just reading the abstract.