Promoted to curated: One of my favorite posts of LessWrong history is Sarah Constantin’s “Fact Posts How and Why”, because it gave me a very concrete tool that could help me understand large parts of the world in a better way. This post I think has done something similar, and while I sadly haven’t gotten around to using it in detail, I have brought it up as an intuition pump a few times in conversation and when thinking about things alone.
I also particularly like the very concrete example, and generally think that concrete examples help a lot with posts like this.
Promoted to curated: One of my favorite posts of LessWrong history is Sarah Constantin’s “Fact Posts How and Why”, because it gave me a very concrete tool that could help me understand large parts of the world in a better way. This post I think has done something similar, and while I sadly haven’t gotten around to using it in detail, I have brought it up as an intuition pump a few times in conversation and when thinking about things alone.
I also particularly like the very concrete example, and generally think that concrete examples help a lot with posts like this.