Why I Hope the Search for Extraterrestrial Life Finds Nothing

Re:Why I Hope the Search for Extraterrestrial Life Finds Not... by amichail on Sunday January 10, 2010 @12:21PM (#1043315)

We need a tldr service where summaries can be put in one place and embedded in other sites such as HN.

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Re:Why I Hope the Search for Extraterrestrial Life Finds Not... by dunk010 on Sunday January 10, 2010 @12:43PM (#1043342)

The author had a good point to be made but took too long to get it across.

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Re:Why I Hope the Search for Extraterrestrial Life Finds Not... by gwern on Sunday January 10, 2010 @12:48PM (#1043352)

He 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.

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Re:Why I Hope the Search for Extraterrestrial Life Finds Not... by Semiapies on Sunday January 10, 2010 @05:06PM (#1043756)

We 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.

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Re:Why I Hope the Search for Extraterrestrial Life Finds Not... by dmoney on Sunday January 10, 2010 @08:40PM (#1044086)

A tl;dr summary helps to figure out which 10 page essays to read, and which would just waste of 30 minutes of your life.

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Re:Why I Hope the Search for Extraterrestrial Life Finds Not... by Semiapies on Monday January 11, 2010 @01:18PM (#1045602)

I 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.

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