AspiringRationalist comments on Creating a Text Shorthand for Uncertainty - Less Wrong
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Why do we need a shorthand? We already have a clear way to express uncertainty (98% sure).
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.