The introduction of the GD paper takes no more than 10 minutes to read
Even 10 minutes is a lot, for many people. I might see 100 semi-interesting Tweets and Hacker News posts that link to lengthy articles per day, and that’s already filtered—I definitely can’t spend 10 min each on many of them.
and no significant cognitive effort to grasp, really.
“No significant cognitive effort” to read a nuanced semi-academic article with unique terminology? I tried spending around ~20-30min understanding this paper, and didn’t find it trivial. I think it’s very easy to make mistakes about what papers like this are really trying to say (In many ways, the above post lists out a bunch of common mistakes, for instance). I know the authors and a lot of related work, and even with that, I didn’t find it trivial. I imagine things are severely harder for people much less close to this area.
Even 10 minutes is a lot, for many people. I might see 100 semi-interesting Tweets and Hacker News posts that link to lengthy articles per day, and that’s already filtered—I definitely can’t spend 10 min each on many of them.
“No significant cognitive effort” to read a nuanced semi-academic article with unique terminology? I tried spending around ~20-30min understanding this paper, and didn’t find it trivial. I think it’s very easy to make mistakes about what papers like this are really trying to say (In many ways, the above post lists out a bunch of common mistakes, for instance). I know the authors and a lot of related work, and even with that, I didn’t find it trivial. I imagine things are severely harder for people much less close to this area.