gyokuro comments on You can't signal to rubes - Less Wrong

7 Post author: Patrick 01 January 2013 06:40AM

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Comment author: gyokuro 02 January 2013 12:01:10AM 13 points [-]

On this site, rube generally means 'red cube', and I had to look up the word to figure out what you meant here. Though this still makes a bit of sense--you can't signal to red cubes either.

Comment author: ahartell 04 January 2013 04:50:06AM 2 points [-]

To those wondering, the first definition for rube I found was "an unsophisticated person from a rural area; a hick."

Comment author: [deleted] 02 January 2013 11:37:19PM 2 points [-]

I thought the same thing, but I guessed it was too silly for me to write it in a comment. Judging from the karma score of the parent, it seems like I was wrong!