philh 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: philh 02 January 2013 12:35:39AM 0 points [-]

I don't suppose that, and I assume you don't expect me to suppose that, but I don't know what you're trying to tell me.

Comment author: HalMorris 02 January 2013 01:33:55AM 0 points [-]

Sorry, should have made that an independent comment, not really an answer to anything in this thread. Just a pet theory brought to mind by all this talk of peacocks and signalling. Cats threaten each other with a toneless sound of rushing air, and and are afraid of high-powered mechanical devices that produce a version of the same effect.