I find this comment relatable, and agree with the sentiment.
I also think Iāve come across this sort of idea in this post somewhere in EA before. But I canāt recall where, so for one thing this post gives me something to link people to.[1] Plus this particular presentation feels somewhat unfamiliar, so I think Iāve learned something new from it. And I definitely found it an interesting refresher in any case.
In general, I think reading up on whatās been written before is good (see also this), but that thereās no harm in multiple posts with similar messages, and often there are various benefits. And EA thoughts are so spread out that itās often hard to thoroughly check whatās come before.
So I think itās probably generally a good norm for people to be happy to post things without worrying too much about the possibility theyāre rehashing existing ideas, at least when the posts are quick to write.
[1] Also, I sort of like the idea of often having posts that serve well as places to link people to for one specific concept or idea, with the concept or idea not being buried in a lot of other stuff. Sort of like posts that just pull out one piece of a larger set of ideas, so that that piece can be easily consumed and revisited by itself. I try to do this sort of thing sometimes. And I think this post could serve that function tooāIād guess that wherever I came across a similar idea, there was a lot of other stuff there too, so this post might serve better as a reference for this one idea than that source wouldāve.
ETA: A partial counter consideration is that some ideas may be best understood in a broader context, and may be misinterpreted without that context (Iām thinking along the lines of the fidelity model). So I think the ācover just one pieceā approach wonāt always be ideal, and is rarely easy to do well.
I find this comment relatable, and agree with the sentiment.
I also think Iāve come across this sort of idea in this post somewhere in EA before. But I canāt recall where, so for one thing this post gives me something to link people to.[1] Plus this particular presentation feels somewhat unfamiliar, so I think Iāve learned something new from it. And I definitely found it an interesting refresher in any case.
In general, I think reading up on whatās been written before is good (see also this), but that thereās no harm in multiple posts with similar messages, and often there are various benefits. And EA thoughts are so spread out that itās often hard to thoroughly check whatās come before.
So I think itās probably generally a good norm for people to be happy to post things without worrying too much about the possibility theyāre rehashing existing ideas, at least when the posts are quick to write.
[1] Also, I sort of like the idea of often having posts that serve well as places to link people to for one specific concept or idea, with the concept or idea not being buried in a lot of other stuff. Sort of like posts that just pull out one piece of a larger set of ideas, so that that piece can be easily consumed and revisited by itself. I try to do this sort of thing sometimes. And I think this post could serve that function tooāIād guess that wherever I came across a similar idea, there was a lot of other stuff there too, so this post might serve better as a reference for this one idea than that source wouldāve.
ETA: A partial counter consideration is that some ideas may be best understood in a broader context, and may be misinterpreted without that context (Iām thinking along the lines of the fidelity model). So I think the ācover just one pieceā approach wonāt always be ideal, and is rarely easy to do well.