Kenny comments on Fallacies of Compression - Less Wrong

36 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 17 February 2008 06:51PM

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Comment author: Tom_McCabe2 17 February 2008 09:46:38PM 1 point [-]

"Expanding your map is (I say again) a scientific challenge: part of the art of science, the skill of inquiring into the world."

Unless you're doing original research, you could simply read about until you realize that you have to use separate mental categories for the two distinct objects. Original discovery is far too time-consuming to bother with when you're just reworking old ground.

Comment author: Kenny 07 February 2013 04:00:51AM 1 point [-]

Original seeing is still a worthwhile skill to improve and maintain, even if you're not doing "original research".