talisman comments on No One Knows Stuff - Less Wrong

7 Post author: talisman 12 May 2009 05:11AM

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Comment author: JGWeissman 12 May 2009 07:05:03AM 1 point [-]

I strongly agree. As an anecdotal data point, I understood the suggested alternative but not the original wording. And it is a powerful point to miss because I haven't heard of Kahnemann and Tversky.

Also, if mentioning specific researchers were central to the point, I would recommend linking to a resource about them, or better yet, create entries for them on the Less Wrong Wiki and link to those.

Comment author: talisman 12 May 2009 04:24:43PM 0 points [-]

Done, thanks for the feedback!

I made the mistake I'm talking about---assuming certain things were well-known.