Tetronian comments on SotW: Be Specific - Less Wrong

37 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 03 April 2012 06:11AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 03 April 2012 07:56:05PM 2 points [-]

Potential problem with this: The game will devolve into associations rather than real specificity. For example, for the phrase "New York Yankees" I might say just "Derek Jeter" and most people would be able to guess correctly, but I haven't really practiced the skill of being specific. You'd have to specifically penalize answers like that to prevent the game from devolving into Hasbro's Taboo.