Vaniver comments on Rationalists don't care about the future - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Vaniver 17 May 2011 12:27:39PM 3 points [-]

This is an argument against the reader, not the post. Anyone interested in these matters should be able to handle basic calculus, or else should withhold voting on such matters.

I would agree, if the post treated the reader that way. When you multiply a polynomial by an exponential, the exponential wins. That's all the author needed to get to his point; instead we have dense paragraphs poorly explaining why that is the case.

Comment author: [deleted] 17 May 2011 01:21:09PM *  0 points [-]

"Dense paragraphs" and poor/unclear wording is not the same thing as "dense maths". So I disagree with timtyler's point, but not with yours.

Presumably, even if the exposition were phrased more clearly, timtyler would still have a problem with the "dense maths".