cypher197 comments on The Failures of Eld Science - Less Wrong

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Comment author: cypher197 25 February 2013 09:50:06PM 2 points [-]

While I very much enjoy programming (look at my creations come to life!) and have been known to conduct experiments in video games to discover their rules, I am almost entirely disinterested in puzzles for their own sake.

I'm a programmer, though, not a scientist, but if puzzles that were largely free of context where solving them could be used to accomplish some goal were a large part of science curricula, I'd be concerned about possible side effects.

Not that I don't think there may be some merit to be mined here.