Jonathan_Graehl comments on does imagining +singularity cause depression? - Less Wrong

-11 Post author: Jonathan_Graehl 30 May 2013 04:51PM

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Comment author: Jonathan_Graehl 30 May 2013 09:11:49PM 0 points [-]

but if i'd used 'can' the answer would be 'yes'.

Comment author: Mestroyer 30 May 2013 10:00:59PM 3 points [-]

But you didn't. Perhaps because that sounds less interesting. The law doesn't say that it is impossible to ask a question whose answer is yes in a headline, it says that people usually don't.

Comment author: Manfred 30 May 2013 09:58:22PM *  1 point [-]

Betteridge's law only works when you help it work.