I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how intellectual progress happens and how LessWrong can do a good job facilitating it.
I found this post useful, both for some concrete examples of what happened during various revolutions of astronomy, and for helping frame my understanding of they fit together.
I do think this post could have benefited from a bit more structure (especially for re-reading – I remembered liking the post a month ago when it was first posted, but as I reviewed it today I found it somewhat hard to remember what the major points where. It would have been helpful to refactor the post somewhat into multiple sections with clearer headings.
Curated.
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how intellectual progress happens and how LessWrong can do a good job facilitating it.
I found this post useful, both for some concrete examples of what happened during various revolutions of astronomy, and for helping frame my understanding of they fit together.
I do think this post could have benefited from a bit more structure (especially for re-reading – I remembered liking the post a month ago when it was first posted, but as I reviewed it today I found it somewhat hard to remember what the major points where. It would have been helpful to refactor the post somewhat into multiple sections with clearer headings.
Thanks for the kind words. I agree that refactoring would be useful, but don’t have the time now. I have added some headings though.