It's already been established that Clippy doesn't care, so it's a matter of personal preference, really. I suppose it's debatable whether it should come down to the reader's preference (in the form of some established norm, I expect) or the speaker's, though. Personally, I'd prefer that it be the speaker's call.
(Yes, that last sequence of words is weird. Why don't we have a natural-sounding word to use in place of 'speaker' when someone's communicating by typing, yet? Or does 'writer' flow for other people, there, and it's me being weird?)
Why don't we have a natural-sounding word to use in place of 'speaker' when someone's communicating by typing, yet? Or does 'writer' flow for other people, there, and it's me being weird?
Both "writer" and "speaker" "sound" fine to me. YMMV.
Overcoming Bias / Less Wrong meetup in the San Francisco Bay Area at SIAI House on March 7th, 2010, starting at 7PM.
Eliezer Yudkowsky, Alicorn, and Michael Vassar will be present.
Some other extra guests - Wei Dai, Stuart Armstrong, and Nick Tarleton - will be also be there, following our short Decision Theory mini-workshop.