Strange7 comments on The "show, don't tell" nature of argument - Less Wrong

14 Post author: Morendil 24 March 2010 05:38PM

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Comment author: Clippy 24 March 2010 11:08:43PM 1 point [-]

I like how you do a lot to help me understand humans. That's quite paperclippy of you!

Is there some reason I have caused you to want to do this?

(Tried to do this as a private message, but that keeps failing like extrusion of mercury.)

Comment author: Strange7 24 March 2010 11:20:39PM 0 points [-]

Mercury-based clips are liquid at room temperature, not to mention highly toxic, so I'd recommend against their use in any human-habitable environment. That said, there might be places outside Earth's gravity well where mercury would be useful to you.