Kawoomba comments on Dangers of steelmanning / principle of charity - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Kawoomba 16 January 2014 10:43:26AM 5 points [-]

If I'm never remembered for anything else in the rationalosphere, I would like to be known as the creator of the term "playdoughmanning".

Please stop with the prismatticmanning of tortured neologisms. The ensuing syllabilistic explosion might pose a memetic hazard (Great Filter = Tower of Babble).

Comment author: Will_Sawin 16 January 2014 06:30:27PM 3 points [-]

It would be amusing if the single primary reason that the universe is not buzzing with life and civilization is that any sufficiently advanced society develops terminology and jargon too complex to be comprehensible, and inevitably collapses because of that.

Comment author: Kawoomba 16 January 2014 06:56:28PM 0 points [-]

?Que?

Comment author: Will_Sawin 16 January 2014 10:50:58PM 0 points [-]

That's what the Great Filter is, no?

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