This is a great post! I know there’s been lots of conversations here and elsewhere about this topic, often going for dozens of comments, and I felt like a lot of them needed summarising else they’d be lost to history. Thanks for summarising them briefly and linking back to them.
Thanks! Yeah, one of my motivations for this post is that I was losing track of these discussions myself and falling back into confusion that was already cleared up. For example, after reading one of Paul’s latest clarifications, I had a strong feeling that he had told me that already on a previous occasion, but I couldn’t remember when. Another push came from my discussion with Raymond Arnold (Raemon) about distillation where we talked about how it’s weird to summarize a debate/disagreement as one of the participants, and it kind of made me realize that summarizing resolved confusions has less of this problem.
This is a great post! I know there’s been lots of conversations here and elsewhere about this topic, often going for dozens of comments, and I felt like a lot of them needed summarising else they’d be lost to history. Thanks for summarising them briefly and linking back to them.
Thanks! Yeah, one of my motivations for this post is that I was losing track of these discussions myself and falling back into confusion that was already cleared up. For example, after reading one of Paul’s latest clarifications, I had a strong feeling that he had told me that already on a previous occasion, but I couldn’t remember when. Another push came from my discussion with Raymond Arnold (Raemon) about distillation where we talked about how it’s weird to summarize a debate/disagreement as one of the participants, and it kind of made me realize that summarizing resolved confusions has less of this problem.
Curated.