Jonathan_Elmer comments on The Useful Idea of Truth - Less Wrong

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

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 02 October 2012 06:46:29PM 3 points [-]

I think there were fewer Google references back when I first made up the word... I will happily accept nominations for either an equally portentous-sounding but unused term, or a portentous-sounding real literary term that is known not to mean anything.

Comment author: Jonathan_Elmer 02 October 2012 07:32:24PM 6 points [-]

Coming up with a made up word will not solve this problem. If the word describes the content of the author's stories then there will be sensory experiences that a reader can expect when reading those stories.

Comment author: Scottbert 03 October 2012 04:35:09PM 4 points [-]

I think the idea is that the hypothetical teacher is making students memorize passwords instead of teaching the meaning of the concept.