So I’m not sure I’d include this in the Best Of book in the first place. If I did, I agree it’d be pretty obviously wrong to imply that the list was comprehensive. I didn’t think that was implied by the post – if you ask a question, usually you don’t end up getting a comprehensive answer right away.
As a post on a live forum, I think it’s pretty obvious that this isn’t a comprehensive list – if it’s missing things, people are supposed to just add those things, and you should expect it to need updating over time.
In the case of a printed book, I’m not sure if the right thing is to change the title, or just make sure to say “here are some specific answers this question post got.” Either seems potentially fine to me.
I very much don’t think the title of the LessWrong post itself should change – it’s trying to ask a question, not spell out any particular expectation of an answer.
So I’m not sure I’d include this in the Best Of book in the first place. If I did, I agree it’d be pretty obviously wrong to imply that the list was comprehensive. I didn’t think that was implied by the post – if you ask a question, usually you don’t end up getting a comprehensive answer right away.
As a post on a live forum, I think it’s pretty obvious that this isn’t a comprehensive list – if it’s missing things, people are supposed to just add those things, and you should expect it to need updating over time.
In the case of a printed book, I’m not sure if the right thing is to change the title, or just make sure to say “here are some specific answers this question post got.” Either seems potentially fine to me.
I very much don’t think the title of the LessWrong post itself should change – it’s trying to ask a question, not spell out any particular expectation of an answer.