Kingreaper comments on Eight Short Studies On Excuses - Less Wrong

210 Post author: Yvain 20 April 2010 11:01PM

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Comment author: Kingreaper 03 October 2010 05:17:06PM 4 points [-]

IOW is such a common abbreviation online that it actually INCREASED my speed of parsing the post.

And I suspect, if you encounter it in future, you may eventually find it to save you time also. IOW, "IOW" may actually be socially optimal in many contexts, even if some people don't understand it.

Much like using the abbreviation FAI.

Comment author: FiftyTwo 09 January 2012 01:41:41AM 31 points [-]

You both managed to have this discussion without actually saying that IOW should be parsed as "In other words." This was sub optimal as it forced me to google it myself. Hopefully this post will provide utility to future readers.