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satt comments on New cognitive bias articles on wikipedia (update) - Less Wrong Discussion

82 Post author: nerfhammer 09 March 2012 08:13PM

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Comment author: satt 10 March 2012 12:56:10PM 15 points [-]

I wanted to write a compendium of biases in book form. I didn't know how to get a book published, though.

Silver lining: in the long run, there's a decent chance more people will read what you wrote on Wikipedia than if you put it in a book.

Comment author: nerfhammer 10 March 2012 07:47:52PM *  25 points [-]

Vastly, vastly more likely.

Everyone once in awhile someone sends me a link to an article on wikipedia saying I would find it interesting... and as a matter of fact, I found it especially interesting: I wrote it!

Or, I added a quote to Daniel Kahneman's page that has since appeared in almost every bio of Kahneman that I've seen since. For example, David Brooks wrote a column on Kahneman a few months ago and used the same exact quote I added, so that's millions of people indirectly.

Boggles the mind, really.