army1987 comments on Personal examples of semantic stopsigns - Less Wrong

44 Post author: Alexei 06 December 2013 02:12AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 07 December 2013 04:54:29PM 1 point [-]

Would you be equally peeved by “negligible probability”?

Comment author: mwengler 10 December 2013 12:57:24AM 0 points [-]

You should be peeved by "negligible probability" unless in the context of the discussion you had previously established what quantity would be below which things were negligible. Negligible literally means "not worth considering," a value judgement, not a quantity.