Kenny comments on Rationality: From AI to Zombies - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Kenny 04 April 2015 12:38:31AM 2 points [-]

What's the payoff of changing hyperlinks to footnotes? Given all of the other, substantive, issues you raised, that seems unlikely to make any significant difference.

Comment author: Persol 04 April 2015 01:00:34AM 7 points [-]

Two reason:

  • Frequently having multiple words as hyperlinks in ebooks mean that 'turning the page' may instead change chapters. Maybe it is just a problem with iPhone kindle.
  • For links that reference forward chapters, what is a new reader to do? They can ignore it and not understand the reference, or they can click, read, and then try to go back... but it's not a very smooth reading experience.

Granted, I probably wouldn't have noticed the second issue, if not for the first issue.

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