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I strongly disagree. When so many people don't have any idea what the issue is, the most useful resource is something that approaches at THIS level, with links

• jfasi 13y ago
  As innocent as they seem, posts like this are dishonest and dangerous. Imagine you're speaking to someone who actively namedrops papers and impressive concepts, but when you press them further it becomes clear they only skimmed the material and are just repeating these things to seem interesting. Imagine the contempt you'd feel for that person, who willingly puts on a show of intelligence and accepts respect from people who are impressed by their vocabulary, but is actually completely ignorant. Now imagine you're speaking to someone who read this post. That person is just as ignorant as our big-mouthed friend, but they don't even know it. They read some post, learn a new term or two, and go out into the world not knowing that what they just read contains no real knowledge whatsoever. A post like this does a huge disservice to that person, because not only does it leads them into ignorance, it actually makes them less empowered to rise above it.