Enthusiastically subtract edges off your graph
Quality understanding involves not only understanding how things are similar, but also how they are different. Understanding the details of things involves reveals their differences, and allows you to trim the edges of your Concept-space.
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“When the unenlightened ones try to be profound, they draw endless verbal comparisons between this topic, and that topic, which is like this, which is like that; until their graph is fully connected and also totally useless. The remedy is specific knowledge and in-depth study. When you understand things in detail, you can see how they are not alike, and start enthusiastically subtracting edges off your graph.” (Eliezer Yudkowsky, Rationality)
“When the unenlightened ones try to be profound, they draw endless verbal comparisons between this topic, and that topic, which is like this, which is like that; until their graph is fully connected and also totally useless. The remedy is specific knowledge and in-depth study. When you understand things in detail, you can see how they are not alike, and start enthusiastically subtracting edges off your graph.” (Eliezer Yudkowsky, Rationality)