polymathwannabe comments on LessWrong 2.0 - Less Wrong

89 Post author: Vaniver 09 December 2015 06:59PM

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Comment author: Lumifer 23 December 2015 04:18:34PM 1 point [-]

by someone who understands them better than I do

Why would such a someone commit to spending a considerable amount of time predigesting papers for your convenience?

Comment author: polymathwannabe 23 December 2015 06:27:57PM -1 points [-]

Upon realizing this, the entire profession of journalism disappeared.

Comment author: IlyaShpitser 23 December 2015 07:28:46PM 2 points [-]

Journalists are not qualified to read papers, generally. As the state of science reporting should tell you.

Comment author: Lumifer 23 December 2015 06:42:58PM *  2 points [-]

It's disappearing anyway :-P

But journalism is certainly not about "summaries of recent [academic] articles by someone who understands them".