bogdanb comments on Writing Style and the Typical Mind Fallacy - Less Wrong

27 Post author: lukeprog 14 July 2013 04:47AM

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Comment author: bogdanb 14 July 2013 06:56:48PM 1 point [-]

Data point: I read them both (in the order you asked, and voted how you asked), then I even compared them paragraph by paragraph, and I can’t really tell which is which. Or, at least, I can’t detect an obvious “Eliezerness” in either.

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