Alexei comments on Logical Pinpointing - Less Wrong

62 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 02 November 2012 03:33PM

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Comment author: Alexei 08 December 2012 12:50:23AM 0 points [-]

x + Sy = Sz -

That looks a bit odd.

Comment author: Kindly 08 December 2012 12:58:05AM 2 points [-]

I think the idea is that one speaker got cut off by the other after having said "x+Sy=Sz".

Comment author: [deleted] 08 December 2012 01:47:49AM *  2 points [-]

If this were Wikipedia, someone would write a rant about the importance of using typographically correct characters for the hyphen, the minus sign, the en dash, and the em dash ( - − – and — respectively).

Comment author: Alexei 08 December 2012 05:31:00AM 0 points [-]

Yeah, I understood that after about 10 seconds of confusion, which seems unnecessary.