KnaveOfAllTrades comments on Stock phrases - Less Wrong

3 Post author: KnaveOfAllTrades 06 April 2014 07:32PM

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Comment author: KnaveOfAllTrades 06 April 2014 07:41:04PM 0 points [-]

Should we have a thread for useful crystallizations to be honed into fully-fledged memes?

What would it be called? Phrase lab? Meme lab?

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Comment author: satt 12 April 2014 05:27:30PM 1 point [-]

It might be better to do this organically & continuously, rather than in a one-time thread. That is, we could keep an eye out for reasoning-related patterns that haven't been labelled yet, and then coin names for them as & when we notice them (maybe here, maybe in the Open Thread, wherever).

(As it happens, I have a couple of such patterns I've thought about posting about, but I see no point in writing posts until I have clear & uncontroversial examples to illustrate them. Though I did post an RQ about one of them.)

Comment author: David_Gerard 07 April 2014 01:28:39PM -1 points [-]

Milhouse Lab, obv.