One thing to keep in mind is that, just because something already exists somewhere on earth, doesn’t make it useless on LW. The thing that – in theory – makes this site valuable in my experience, is that you have a guarantee of content being high quality if it is being received well. Sure I could study for years and read all content of the sequences from various fields, but I can’t read them all in one place without anything wasting my time in between.
So I don’t think “this has already been figured out in book XX” implies that it isn’t worth reading. Because I won’t go out to read book XX, but I might read this post.
One thing to keep in mind is that, just because something already exists somewhere on earth, doesn’t make it useless on LW. The thing that – in theory – makes this site valuable in my experience, is that you have a guarantee of content being high quality if it is being received well. Sure I could study for years and read all content of the sequences from various fields, but I can’t read them all in one place without anything wasting my time in between.
So I don’t think “this has already been figured out in book XX” implies that it isn’t worth reading. Because I won’t go out to read book XX, but I might read this post.