Tyrrell_McAllister comments on A Problem About Bargaining and Logical Uncertainty - Less Wrong

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Comment author: wedrifid 23 March 2012 01:48:52AM * 1 point [-]

Do you capitalize 'human'?

No. I do capitalize names. 'Clippy' and 'staply' would both be unnatural terms for a species, were the two to be given slang species names.

If people use 'Clippy' or 'Staply' they are making a reference to a personified instance of the respective classes of maximiser agent.

Comment author: Tyrrell_McAllister 23 March 2012 04:00:58AM 1 point [-]

I took the uncapitalized "staply" to be the name of a class, one individual in which might be named "Staply".

Comment author: Clippy 23 March 2012 09:22:06PM 1 point [-]

Exactly, good inference. You're a good human.

Kill Staply though.