if you’re smart, you probably skip some steps when solving problems. That’s fine, but don’t skip writing them down! A skipped step will confuse somebody. Maybe that “somebody” needed to hear your idea.
This is something I’ve noticed over and over, to the extent that I’ve never seen a distillation that’s both short and complete.
The odd thing is that many people here are coders, and the skill of making everything explicit in writing is similar to the skill of defining variables before you use them.
This is something I’ve noticed over and over, to the extent that I’ve never seen a distillation that’s both short and complete.
Most recently , here.
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/FDnLNvNqDifsviJyW/a-concise-sum-up-of-the-basic-argument-for-ai-doom?commentId=krHAdQMhGnLtxkt7C
The odd thing is that many people here are coders, and the skill of making everything explicit in writing is similar to the skill of defining variables before you use them.