diegocaleiro comments on How not to be a Naïve Computationalist - Less Wrong
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If the purpose is to be mininmal, yes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exclusive_or
"one or the other but not both." From Wikipedia.
I begin to think I was not that wrong......
Your use may be technically correct but it is very misleading. If you simply say "do A or B", it's clear that doing one is sufficient so a person who wants to save effort will only do one. Specifying "xor" therefore suggests that there is some additional harm to doing both, beyond nonminimality.