Sniffnoy comments on Terminology suggestion: Say "degrees utility" instead of "utils" to prompt affine thinking - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Sniffnoy 20 May 2013 07:44:39PM *  2 points [-]

2*40 degrees = 80 degrees

Except 2*40 degrees isn't 80 degrees; the operation "2*40 degrees" is simply meaningless in the first place. (I mean, unless that's a temperature difference of 40 degrees.)

(I mean, OK, you can strictly speaking double a temperature, but in order to do so you need to know what absolute zero is.)