benelliott comments on Pascal's Muggle: Infinitesimal Priors and Strong Evidence - Less Wrong

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Comment author: benelliott 07 May 2013 09:00:25AM 0 points [-]

But yeah, "diyer" is too close to "die" to be easily distinguishable. Maybe "rubemond"?

I could see the argument for that, provided we also had saphmonds, emmonds etc... Otherwise you run the risk of claiming a special connection that doesn't exist.

Comment author: Kindly 07 May 2013 01:27:48PM 4 points [-]

We would also need to find a different word for almonds.