Alejandro1 comments on SotW: Check Consequentialism - Less Wrong

38 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 29 March 2012 01:35AM

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Comment author: Alejandro1 29 March 2012 07:13:33PM 2 points [-]

I don't think the trochee pattern is so critical to these debates. Cavemen vs. astronauts is a notorious counterexample.

Comment author: pedanterrific 06 April 2012 02:38:36AM 0 points [-]

I wonder why no one ever phrases it cavemen vs. spacemen.

Comment author: countercheck 30 March 2012 01:12:53AM 0 points [-]

Cavemen is a trochee. Astronauts is a dactyl, which is why it's less funny, but still close enough to a trochee.

Comment author: thomblake 30 March 2012 01:16:46AM 2 points [-]

Well cavemen are well-known in the literature for their pterodactyl-defeating skills, so I suppose that would generalize to other dactyls.

Comment author: thomblake 29 March 2012 07:26:39PM -1 points [-]

Oddly, I don't think I've encountered anything vs. astronauts before.

Comment author: thomblake 30 March 2012 12:34:25AM -1 points [-]

I retract my statement. I've seen the entirety of Angel.

Comment author: wedrifid 30 March 2012 07:11:19PM * 0 points [-]

I retract my statement. I've seen the entirety of Angel.

Come to think of it the only times I've heard the debate is between Angel and Spike and Bones and Booth. I hadn't caught the easter egg until now.