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Cyan comments on Catchy Fallacy Name Fallacy (and Supporting Disagreement) - Less Wrong
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True. But the receiver is just as important to understanding as the communicator. When one does what they should do, any inability to communicate rests with the other.
Cyan, both you and MendelSchmiedekamp are correct in your points, but it might be more useful to stress how Nominull's behavior fell short of the ideal communication strategy, rather than noting that being right isn't necessarily useful.
Good point. Suppose the procedure ought to be something like:
Nominull skipped step 2, which in this case might be, "There's a difference between something being obscure to you and it being obscure in a general sense. I don't think "tl;dr" can be considered generally obscure given that the explanation of what it means is the top google hit."
Good point - I think it should have defused much of the disagreement. You get the definition right on the results page!
ETA: I have no idea whether I meant to say "defused" or "diffused" there. Hmm...