army1987 comments on Rationality Quotes August 2013 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: [deleted] 02 August 2013 10:09:08PM 2 points [-]

the Law of Conserved Conversation (That i've just made up)

You may want to read something about pragmatics, starting with e.g. the section on conversational implicatures in Chapter 1 of CGEL.

(Your made-up law sounds related to these.)

Comment author: Joshua_Blaine 03 August 2013 12:35:40AM 2 points [-]

Huh. The Maxim of Relation does sound very much like what I was trying to go for.