tut comments on Blackmail, Nukes and the Prisoner's Dilemma - Less Wrong

20 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 10 March 2010 02:58PM

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Comment author: tut 13 March 2010 11:29:01AM 0 points [-]

The quoted version says something about a marriage license, and explains that marriage licenses ensure punishments... . The corrected version (without commas) says something about a marriage license which ensures such punishment, but makes no general statements about marriage licenses.

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Comment author: gwern 16 April 2010 06:53:57PM 0 points [-]

If syntax didn't affect semantics, it'd be useless.