shminux comments on Realistic epistemic expectations - LessWrong

14 Post author: JonahSinick 31 May 2015 10:52PM

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Comment author: shminux 01 June 2015 12:44:51AM 5 points [-]

If I were to restrict myself to making claims that I could substantiate in a mere ~2 hours, that would preclude the possibility of me sharing the vast majority of what I know.

Using your mathematical analogy, would it help to explicitly assume a few plausible lemmas whose proof can be given later, and derive your main result from them, in order to cut down on the size of the post?

Comment author: JonahSinick 01 June 2015 01:51:59AM 1 point [-]

Yes, that's a good suggestion.