Whether or not your assumption is true, your comment added no information. If people are capable of detecting obvious errors, then they would already have done so; if not, then you haven’t helped.
Not only does this style of comment prevent others from learning from you, it also prevents others from actually engaging with your point, so that you might learn from them. Assuming that you have nothing to learn from others is, in general, a poor strategy.
(All of that assumes that you’re not just bluffing and trying to hide the fact that you have no idea what you’re talking about.)
“If people are capable of detecting obvious errors, then they would already have done so”
And there’s another. Possessing the capacity for something isn’t the same as achieving it. People might detect the error if they happen to notice it. People don’t necessarily notice things; in fact, they often don’t notice the obvious at all.
“Assuming that you have nothing to learn from others is, in general, a poor strategy.”
Concluding so accurately, however, is an excellent one.
I generally assume that the people who read my comments are capable of detecting obvious errors.
Look at the requirements for those theorems to apply, and then look at the conditions MBlume set out.
Whether or not your assumption is true, your comment added no information. If people are capable of detecting obvious errors, then they would already have done so; if not, then you haven’t helped.
Not only does this style of comment prevent others from learning from you, it also prevents others from actually engaging with your point, so that you might learn from them. Assuming that you have nothing to learn from others is, in general, a poor strategy.
(All of that assumes that you’re not just bluffing and trying to hide the fact that you have no idea what you’re talking about.)
“your comment added no information.”
An obvious, trivial falsehood.
“If people are capable of detecting obvious errors, then they would already have done so”
And there’s another. Possessing the capacity for something isn’t the same as achieving it. People might detect the error if they happen to notice it. People don’t necessarily notice things; in fact, they often don’t notice the obvious at all.
“Assuming that you have nothing to learn from others is, in general, a poor strategy.”
Concluding so accurately, however, is an excellent one.