orthonormal comments on Narrow your answer space - Less Wrong

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Comment author: orthonormal 06 January 2011 03:49:37AM *  1 point [-]

Except that the statements here are public, and if you speak French in reply to one person, then people who don't speak French are going to be left out of the conversation. English-only is the proper Schelling point for this public forum.

Comment author: wnoise 06 January 2011 05:54:35AM 1 point [-]

It was a metaphor. The actual property being referenced has fine enough gradations that there is no Schelling point, nor a particular point that can be agreed by everyone to be "English". (Nor is aiming at a point in this space any guarantee of hitting it., nor will people describe the same points with the same words).