Hul-Gil comments on Intelligence Explosion vs. Co-operative Explosion - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Hul-Gil 19 April 2012 05:34:10AM *  0 points [-]

The heuristic I generally use is "use parentheses as needed, but rewrite if you find that you're needing to use square brackets." Why? Thinking about it, I believe this is because I see parentheses all the time in professional texts, but almost never parentheticals inside parentheticals.

But as I verbalize this heuristic, I suddenly feel like it might lend the writing a certain charm or desirable style to defy convention and double-bag some asides. Hmm.