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9 Post author: SquirrelInHell 04 March 2016 02:06PM

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Comment author: gjm 04 March 2016 10:00:35PM 0 points [-]

I very much agree, but it seems to me that such learning as LW offers (or could offer) is much more of the explicit theoretically-summarizable kind than the implicit ineffable life-experience kind.

Comment author: Lumifer 07 March 2016 04:15:38PM 0 points [-]

Fair point, though I'd like to add that even the "explicit kind" often needs a lot of context.