wnoise comments on Narrow your answer space - Less Wrong

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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).