Nisan comments on Open Thread: July 2010 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: murat 02 July 2010 08:59:04AM *  3 points [-]

I have a few questions.

1) What's "Bayescraft"? I don't recall seeing this word elsewhere. I haven't seen a definition on LW wiki either.

2) Why do some people capitalize some words here? Like "Traditional Rationality" and whatnot.

Comment author: Nisan 02 July 2010 12:43:44PM 3 points [-]

Capitalized words are often technical terms. So "Traditional Rationality" refers to certain epistemic attitudes and methods which have, in the past, been called "rational" (a word which is several hundred years old). This frees up the lower-case word "rationality", which on this site is also a technical term.