I like this post for a few reasons, most of which have been covered by other commenters. The object-level topic is a bit atypical for LessWrong, but
a) I think it ends up touching on some key meta-level LW topics, such as gears-level-understanding, and learning how to learn.
b) as Romeo notes, I think it’d be a bit better to have at least some more posts like this on the margin, even if at face value they don’t obviously end up connecting to the “obvious” LessWrong paradigm topics.
The post itself is well written and make it’s points quite clearly.
On a personal level, I also think it touches upon topics I wrote about several years ago, and I think makes the points I was trying to make much more clearly.
Curated.
I like this post for a few reasons, most of which have been covered by other commenters. The object-level topic is a bit atypical for LessWrong, but
a) I think it ends up touching on some key meta-level LW topics, such as gears-level-understanding, and learning how to learn.
b) as Romeo notes, I think it’d be a bit better to have at least some more posts like this on the margin, even if at face value they don’t obviously end up connecting to the “obvious” LessWrong paradigm topics.
The post itself is well written and make it’s points quite clearly.
On a personal level, I also think it touches upon topics I wrote about several years ago, and I think makes the points I was trying to make much more clearly.