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Really needs a TL;DR style summary at the start. Or at least a couple brief examples to show the approach in a concise manner. While I could spend significant
by yardstick 8y ago
Really needs a TL;DR style summary at the start. Or at least a couple brief examples to show the approach in a concise manner.
While I could spend significant time reading the entire manifesto, I’d appreciate a way to see up front if it’s worthwhile doing so.
The author has rejected similar calls before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18425581 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18425581 but I truly think it would be beneficial to a lot of potential readers.
- geezerjay 8y agoIf the author can't be bothered to explain his idea in intelligible and clear terms, and also is unable to present a concrete example showcasing his proposed approach, then there is no point to waste time reading a manifesto as the creators themselves are incapable of leveraging the idea to produce any result.
- jondubois 8y agoI also agree. If something cannot be explained in simple terms, then there is no way that it will be understood by enough people to actually trigger a change in collective behavior. There needs to be some kind of marketing to give people an incentive to read the whole thing. The marketing can be technical but it needs to be short and it needs to appeal to a common set of principles which people already have.
- megakid 8y agoCame here to write this. Agree
- quickthrower2 8y agoYep I came here for the tldr to see if it is worth reading the rest of the article.