Hopefully_Anonymous comments on "Science" as Curiosity-Stopper - Less Wrong

54 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 03 September 2007 08:04PM

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Comment author: Hopefully_Anonymous 03 September 2007 10:09:23PM 0 points [-]

NE1, I think "electricity" can function as both password and citation. Often in pedagogical settings, answers like that do function literally as passwords -if you say or write it, you can proceed, whether or not you are aware it's "a citation of the studies and laws that the teacher claims are relevant". I'm not sure if it's important for non-experts to know more than passwords that allow for general literacy, though.

However, I also think it would be helpful to this audience for Eliezer to relate his insights clearly rather than through parables, etc.