army1987 comments on Causal Reference - Less Wrong

30 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 20 October 2012 10:12PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 21 October 2012 10:27:46PM 3 points [-]

Maybe you should elaborate on this in a top-level post.

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 25 October 2012 04:29:15AM 2 points [-]

I edited the main post to put it in.

Comment author: William_Quixote 29 October 2012 09:55:31PM 1 point [-]

I will probably reskim the post, but in general it’s not clear to me that editing content into a preexisting posts is better than incorporating then into the next post where it would be appropriate. The former provides the content to all people yet to read it and all people who will reread it while the latter provides the content to all people who yet to read it. So you are trading the time value of getting updated content to the people who will reread this post faster at the expense of not getting updated content to those who will read the next post but not reread the present post.

I don’t have readership and rereadership stats, but this seems like an answerable question.