NancyLebovitz comments on How to deal with someone in a LessWrong meeting being creepy - Less Wrong

16 Post author: Douglas_Reay 09 September 2012 04:41AM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (769)

You are viewing a single comment's thread. Show more comments above.

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 10 September 2012 09:12:41AM 2 points [-]

Time and place indexing-- for what times and places do you have evidence of something being true?

Now that I think about it, Eliezer's year subscripts for his different stages of understanding may be a result of influence from Korzybski.

Comment author: buybuydandavis 12 September 2012 02:38:45AM 1 point [-]

Couldn't find the definitive "tabooing a word", if there is such a thing, but after the taboo, I think EY recommends replacing it with what amounts to an "extensional" description.