arundelo comments on Open thread for December 17-23, 2013 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: arundelo 20 December 2013 04:07:19PM 5 points [-]

Should be "ADBOC" -- "agree denotationally, but object connotatively". (ygert is probably thinking of "disagree" instead of "object".)

Comment author: Lumifer 20 December 2013 04:30:26PM 2 points [-]

Ah, thanks. I usually think of such things as "technically correct but misleading" -- that's more or less the same thing, right?

Comment author: Oscar_Cunningham 20 December 2013 07:51:25PM 0 points [-]

Yes.

Comment author: ygert 21 December 2013 03:38:00PM 0 points [-]

Yes, my mistake. I was in a rush, and didn't have time to double check what the acronym was. Edited now.

Comment author: arundelo 21 December 2013 05:32:28PM 0 points [-]

I think I could make an argument that "object" has a semantic advantage over "disagree" but one advantage is that "adboc" can be pronounced as a two-syllable word.