AspiringRationalist comments on Creating a Text Shorthand for Uncertainty - Less Wrong

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Comment author: AspiringRationalist 21 October 2013 02:42:37AM 0 points [-]

Why do we need a shorthand? We already have a clear way to express uncertainty (98% sure).

Comment author: Baughn 21 October 2013 08:28:33PM *  0 points [-]

If you could get past the bootstrap problem, it'd be used more than the existing version, simply due to being faster to type. ~c2

There is the issue of fitting it into existing grammatical rules, but that's not strictly speaking required.