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Alicorn comments on LW/OB Quotes - Fall 2009 - Less Wrong
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Vote this up if you disagree and think we should keep having OBLW quote threads.
Perhaps we could have them less frequently than the regular quote threads - every two or three months, instead of monthly.
I agree with Alicorn: having an OBLW quote thread is good, but there probably isn't enough quotable stuff to justify having it every month. It should be rarer -- how about the start of every season/quarter? Vote her post up if you prefer this alternative.
(If you say that the term "alternative" should only be used when there are two choices, you're ETC not necessarily a terrorist, but are being excessively pedantic.)
Agreed. Tentatively renamed.
And 'alternative' should be used for any number of choices, provided they're mutually exclusive. I must, however, take issue with your usage of 'terrorist'.
For maximum pedanticness, an alternative is one of two or more time-identical, agent-identical actions or sets of actions that the agent in question is able to perform. An alternative set is the complete list of all alternatives available to a given agent for a given span of time.
Btw, weren't you going to quote me on Allais-type paradoxes? :-(
Terrorist remark rewritten ;-)