wedrifid comments on Think Before You Speak (And Signal It) - Less Wrong
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I have been thinking about this comment for three hours before making it. I do that for all my comments, which is why you should trust my inferences more.
That just seems to suggest that your your hardware is slow or your software inefficient. Taking time to think over things, letting them be evaluated in the background of your mind, is a human strategy.
(Also - just writing explicit assersions quoted or paraphrased from any given subject on signalling makes the Clippy persona seem to be 'trying too hard'. It would be better to save him for the more poignant insights he sometimes serves to illustrate.)