bogus comments on Intelligence Explosion vs. Co-operative Explosion - Less Wrong

20 Post author: Kaj_Sotala 16 April 2012 11:01AM

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Comment author: bogus 19 April 2012 05:06:58AM *  4 points [-]

I don't know whether I'm right in thinking there's a parentheses/intelligence correlation, but if I am there's a reasonably plausible explanation. Why would someone use lots of parens?

((Well), that's (easy).) (((Heavy) users (of (parentheses))) tend to (be ((LISP) weenies))), and ((learning (LISP)) gives ((a) boost (of) ((15) to (30) (IQ) points), (at least))).