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77 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 02 October 2012 06:16PM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 02 October 2012 06:21:18PM 0 points [-]

In particular, "post-utopian" is not a real term so far as I know, and I'm using it as a stand-in for literary terms that do in fact have no meaning. If you think there are none of those, Alan Sokal would like to have a word with you.

Comment author: Kaj_Sotala 02 October 2012 06:55:54PM *  13 points [-]

If that's your criteria, you could use some stand-in for computer science terms that have no meaning.

WMSCI, the World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, is a computer science and engineering conference that has occurred annually since 1995. [...] WMSCI attracted publicity of a less favorable sort in 2005 when three graduate students at MIT succeeded in getting a paper accepted as a "non-reviewed paper" to the conference that had been randomly generated by a computer program called SCIgen

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