sediment comments on MIRI course list book reviews, part 1: Gödel, Escher, Bach - Less Wrong

16 Post author: So8res 01 September 2013 05:40PM

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Comment author: sediment 13 September 2013 10:35:09AM *  1 point [-]

I'm not familiar with the exclamation point notation, and I'm not sure where it originates, though of course I could infer it from context. "Any arguments that were novel to me" seems to achieve the same thing in a less jargony, more accessible way. Is there any reason to go with the "Nate!novel" form over that?

Comment author: Randaly 13 September 2013 11:25:13AM 1 point [-]

It originates in fanfiction summaries, where authors have a limited number of characters to describe their characters.