army1987 comments on Luck I: Finding White Swans - Less Wrong

25 Post author: fowlertm 12 December 2013 05:56PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 13 December 2013 01:51:49PM 0 points [-]

Incident 2: The dollar bill had been carefully laid on the ground, folded up, with diarrhea smeared inside the fold.

Literally?

Comment author: TheAncientGeek 13 December 2013 05:02:01PM 2 points [-]

Shit happens

Comment author: Lumifer 13 December 2013 04:26:25PM 2 points [-]

Guerrilla biological warfare, natch :-/

Comment author: ialdabaoth 13 December 2013 05:27:28PM 3 points [-]

Literally?

...I'm not sure what kind of metaphor I'd be making, here. I am now genuinely curious what kinds of non-literal interpretations there are for "the dollar bill had been carefully laid on the ground, folded up, with diarrhea smeared inside the fold."

Comment author: [deleted] 15 December 2013 08:45:09AM 2 points [-]

I dunno, that just sounded so... ‘weird’ to me that I gave sizeable probability to ‘ialdabaoth means something else I can't think of’.