SilasBarta comments on Open Thread, April 1-15, 2013 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: SilasBarta 03 April 2013 01:56:33AM 4 points [-]

Shouldn't it? Isn't epistemic hygiene correlated with font choice in known cases? I mean, if someone posts something in Comic Sans ...

Comment author: [deleted] 03 April 2013 12:16:10PM 0 points [-]

I'd expect that to be mostly screened off by e.g. grammar and wording, though. (If I had read that passage about asteroids as existential risk written in Comic Sans, I would probably have assumed that the person who chose the font wasn't the same person who wrote the passage.)