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Comment author: Stuart_Armstrong 16 October 2014 08:44:41AM 3 points [-]

Interesting. It really seems to be field thing - neither the maths nor the philosophy I did were much into figures.

Comment author: Sean_o_h 16 October 2014 10:11:08AM *  7 points [-]

I think our field of philosophy, and that of xrisk, could very much benefit from more/better figures, but this might be the biologist in me speaking. Look at how often Nick Bostrom's (really quite simplistic) xrisk "scope versus intensity" graph is used/reproduced.

Comment author: owencb 17 October 2014 11:20:53AM 4 points [-]

Several of my favourite mathematics papers have excellent diagrams.

Comment author: Stuart_Armstrong 17 October 2014 01:18:58PM 2 points [-]

And some of my best friends use diagrams... but...

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