wadavis comments on Open thread, Oct. 27 - Nov. 2, 2014 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: wadavis 29 October 2014 10:35:01PM 6 points [-]

Side point: I've found material like his, "concepts we talk about here, but under different names", extremely useful when I want to explain the idea of rationality to someone without having to work around the lesswrong lingo and trying to have a conversion while tabooing all the lesswrong phases and cached thoughts.

Comment author: IlyaShpitser 30 October 2014 10:54:59AM *  4 points [-]

Yes! In my opinion, it's a great habit to be on the lookout for things under a different name. This is the "academic coordination problem:" things are often rediscovered again and again, because people have incentives to write but not to read.