Sniffnoy comments on How not to be a Naïve Computationalist - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Sniffnoy 20 April 2011 06:18:40PM 1 point [-]

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.