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We need a tldr service where summaries can be put in one place and embedded in other sites such as HN.
by amichail 17y ago
We need a tldr service where summaries can be put in one place and embedded in other sites such as HN.
- dunk010 17y agoThe author had a good point to be made but took too long to get it across.
- gwern 17y agoHe had a good point and took so long to make it so carefully because he knows that if he doesn't, people will make all sorts of dumb comments & objections. This HN submission actually isn't even all that bad as far as it goes; check the comments on some of Bostrom's submissions to other, more popular, fora and you'll be routinely smacking your forehead.
- Semiapies 17y agoWe need people to have the patience to look at a ten-page essay and not go, "Noooooooo...words...." EDIT: Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, here - not everything worthwhile comes packaged in a ten-sentence blog post.
- dmoney 17y agoA tl;dr summary helps to figure out which 10 page essays to read, and which would just waste of 30 minutes of your life.
- Semiapies 17y agoI suspect it may be a waste either way; at least some of the tl;dr complainers seem to have trouble doing more than skimming such an essay. Therein lies the real problem.