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Vladimir_Nesov comments on The Advantages of Being Technical - Less Wrong Discussion

17 Post author: XiXiDu 19 May 2011 07:39PM

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Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 20 May 2011 03:48:04AM 3 points [-]

To be technical means to be more formal.

Not necessarily, at least not in any sense of surface appearance. See Three stages of rigour by Terrence Tao. (Use the formal ruleset to train your intuition.)