kpreid comments on Looking for a likely cause of a mental phenomenon - Less Wrong

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Comment author: kpreid 15 December 2012 05:45:37AM *  0 points [-]

Thinking about it for a minute, I think the difference between "hacking” and “munchkin-ing”, insofar as there is one, is that the former is about the kind of results (unusual/unobvious) and the latter is about the scale of results (large relative to effort).