As @thegdb pointed out, the economic incentives should be tied to Kolmogorov complexity.
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Or, put another way, the broken incentives today are probably *halving* (or more) the rate at which you can learn. Be mad!
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Question: so what is it that would make the people who write books express their ideas more succinctly?
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@patrickc that seems to be making the faulty assumption that length isn’t proportional to the teaching done? -
@segiddins I think it's obviously true that they're related. (If you 5x-ed the length, wouldn't learning be slower?) Now run that backwards. - 3 more replies
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@patrickc Learning doesn't necessarily increase with brevity. Repetition and looking from multiple angles can help. Complex ideas take time. -
@donovanh Right; but surely you'll agree that expression of an idea *can* be needlessly prolix; question is then where on continuum it lies. - 1 more reply
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@patrickc wouldn't something like http://www.amazon.com/Principles-Mathematical-Analysis-International-Mathematics/dp/007054235X … be a counterexample here? -
@patrickc (i.e., this strikes me as concise, but not necessarily clear. this may not be your point though.)pic.twitter.com/oZadd6gWYu
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