Bugmaster comments on Our Phyg Is Not Exclusive Enough - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Bugmaster 15 April 2012 08:49:32AM 2 points [-]

happen to agree that they contain much knowledge - they aren't pure knowledge... Enough that it makes sense to want debate to continue from that level, rather than from scratch.

Agreed.

Besides, if you manage to read a sequence, understand it, and still disagree, that means your reply is likely to be interesting and highly upvoted.

I emphatically agree with you there, as well; but by making this site more "phygvfu", we risk losing this capability.

so I think an expectation of having read Map and Territory and Mysterious Answers would be useful.

I agree that these are very useful concepts in general, but I still maintain that it's best to provide the links to these posts in context, as opposed to simply locking out anyone who hadn't read them -- which is what nyan_sandwich seems to be suggesting.

Comment author: MarkusRamikin 15 April 2012 09:35:02AM 3 points [-]

Trouble is, I'm not really sure what nyan_sandwich is suggesting, in specific and concrete terms, over and above already existing norms and practices. "I wish we had higher quality debate" is not a mechanism.