player_03 comments on Rationality Quotes November 2011 - Less Wrong

6 Post author: Jayson_Virissimo 01 November 2011 06:28PM

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Comment author: Nominull 01 November 2011 09:00:23PM 2 points [-]

As always when we hear the word "worse", we need to ask ourselves, "worse on what metric?"

Comment author: player_03 01 November 2011 11:36:02PM 5 points [-]

This reminds me of Lojban, in which the constructs meaning "good" and "bad" encourage you to specify a metric. It is still possible to say that something is "worse" without providing any detail, but I suspect most Lojban speakers would remember to provide detail if there was a chance of confusion.