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Lumifer comments on The Problem of "Win-More" - Less Wrong Discussion

26 Post author: katydee 26 March 2014 06:32PM

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Comment author: Lumifer 26 March 2014 07:01:21PM 3 points [-]

I call this the "win-more problem." Concepts that suffer from the win-more problem are those that-- while certainly useful to an advanced user-- are misleading or net harmful to a less skillful person.

Also known as "a little learning is a dangerous thing", as Alexander Pope noted in early XVIII century...