billswift comments on Class Project - Less Wrong

26 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 31 May 2008 12:23AM

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Comment author: billswift 08 October 2010 10:19:03AM 12 points [-]

There are actually multiple reasons, some stories stress different ones. The one I like is that by keeping the results secret, they can train students in discovery by encouraging/forcing them to rediscover the laws as part of their training.