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handoflixue comments on Stupid Questions Open Thread Round 2 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: handoflixue 23 April 2012 10:14:42PM 2 points [-]

"Obvious to the population as a whole" and "obvious to a LessWrong reader" probably differ dramatically. I don't think repeating the advice is necessarily bad, since those are common points of failure, but the value of the advice is probably fairly minimal.