PhilGoetz comments on Taboo "rationality," please. - Less Wrong

23 Post author: MBlume 15 March 2009 10:44PM

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Comment author: PhilGoetz 16 March 2009 02:17:39AM 3 points [-]

I think it's fine to use the terms if you say what you mean by them, and not especially bad to use them even if you don't. We can't define all our terms. Why single those ones out as problematic? More potential for confusion lurks in the words we're not watching as closely.