TheAncientGeek comments on In favour of terseness - Less Wrong

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Comment author: TheAncientGeek 18 March 2014 12:52:18PM *  0 points [-]

Could I have desired beef more strongly?

It's not a simple issue. It seems intuitive to me that I have ownership of actions that I originate in a way that I don't over events that were originated by the Big Bang

Answering questions catechistically is easy. Justifying an answer as being the one true answer, and meeting objections is difficult.

The world does not abound with simple answers to complex problems, because they are hard to achieve -- genuinely.

The typical failure modes are:

1 answering a different, easier question.

2 taking sides on an issue without sufficient justification, ie coming up with doctrine.

A lot of the problemisthe ambiguity of "answer" between "solution" and "response to a question".