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This passage got me thinking:

> It’s become an ideas forest which people wander into from different directions, finding trails which I had long since forgotten about and inviting me to explore a now overgrown area to see if I should begin tending to it once more.

I'm going to spend time thinking about this. And, perhaps, blogging about it, in much the same fashion as the author.

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It's nicely put.

Go for it.

It reminds me of why I've returned to reading academic papers. Not for the 'correctness', but as I've tired tripping on the twisting vines of short digestible answers endlessly immovably entwined by themselves but whose true root is no more than the thinnest topsoil.

Short, digestible content like tweets can be arranged into an ideas forest, but only if connected by lines of reasoning instead of being piled one on top of the other in reverse chronological order.

I have a first implementation. Details at https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/f2CftRRndH97RpAwL/how-i-got-...

You're re-inventing IBIS[1]. See also Marshall 1989[2] but be conscious of Marshall 1999[3].

1. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Issue_mapping>.

2. <https://doi.org/10.1145/74014.74031>

3. <https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1008716330212>

Thanks for the interesting references. I think I have a better data model than those had, but it's cool that people have recognized before that there's a need for something like this.

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