RomeoStevens comments on Focus on rationality - Less Wrong

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Comment author: RomeoStevens 02 June 2012 08:29:44PM *  28 points [-]

You don't need to carry them in your head. Having a collection of recommendations for everyday tasks is highly valuable as the signal to noise ratio here will be through the roof compared to google. You might consider it a waste of time, but many of us do this kind of research when we decide to optimize some corner of our lives. Sharing it doesn't take that much additional time and saves everyone else quite a bit of time. If lots of people do it we collectively save huge amounts of time.

Comment author: magfrump 03 June 2012 12:03:32AM 9 points [-]

This, this, this.

If I think of a computer science metaphor, I like having good standards and agreements in notation and implementation for writing code. But I also like (and often even prefer) having big libraries of code already written for me.