FAWS comments on Eliezer Yudkowsky Facts - Less Wrong

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Comment author: FAWS 06 August 2011 09:23:38AM 2 points [-]

Perhaps "making the charitable assumption" is, in general, too narrow a phrasing.

Surely you mean "too wide", since your issue seems to be that different people understand it to mean different things in the same situation?

Comment author: lessdazed 06 August 2011 11:40:54AM 0 points [-]

I should claim I meant to do that. Instead, I can honestly plead intoxication...but more likely I was thinking "too narrowing a phrasing".