luminosity comments on Some rationality tweets - Less Wrong

43 Post author: Peter_de_Blanc 30 December 2010 07:14AM

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Comment author: luminosity 30 December 2010 11:03:32AM 4 points [-]

I, on the other hand, dislike it. Low hanging fruit is a useful and fairly accurate metaphor. This is taking the metaphor and torturing it. It sounds witty, but I don't think it really gets across anything important, nor easily.

Comment author: shokwave 30 December 2010 05:10:44PM 8 points [-]

This is taking the metaphor and torturing it.

Don't look now, but the rest of the comments on the grandparent are also torturing the poor thing. Thankfully, metaphors don't have moral significance.