AShepard comments on Uncertainty - Less Wrong

20 Post author: Vaniver 29 November 2011 11:12PM

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Comment author: AShepard 01 December 2011 09:03:09PM 3 points [-]

I'm having difficulties with your terminology. You've given special meanings to "distinction", "prospect", and "deal" that IMO don't bear any obvious relationship to their common usage ("event" makes more sense). Hence, I don't find those terms helpful in evoking the intended concepts. Seeing "A deal is a distinction over prospects" is roughly as useful to me as seeing "A flim is a fnord over grungas". In both case, I have to keep a cheat-sheet handy to understand what you mean, since I can't rely on an association between word and concept that I've already internalized. Maybe this is accepted terminology that I'm not aware of?

Comment author: Vaniver 01 December 2011 10:29:42PM 0 points [-]

I'm having difficulties with your terminology.

I'm not sure yet how much the terminology will pop up in future articles (one of the pitfalls of posting them as you go). I don't think it will matter much, but if it future posts are unclear point out where the language is problematic and I'll try to make things clearer.