itaibn0 comments on AI risk, new executive summary - Less Wrong

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Comment author: rule_and_line 18 April 2014 05:57:45PM *  0 points [-]

Is there a convenient place to see just what changed from the old to the new?

Online diff tools aren't usefully handling the paragraphs when I copy-paste, and my solution of download -> insert line breaks -> run through my favorite diff program is probably inconvenient for most.

Comment author: itaibn0 19 April 2014 12:57:47PM 0 points [-]

Thinking about this, it seems like there should exist some version of diff which points out differences on the word level rather than the line level. That would be useful for text documents which only have line breaks in between paragraphs. Given how easy I expect it to be to program such a thing almost certainly does exist, but I don't know where to find it.

Comment author: DSimon 21 April 2014 08:12:58PM 0 points [-]

Try wdiff

Comment author: rule_and_line 19 April 2014 05:45:53PM *  0 points [-]

I'm only familiar with open source tools, but git will do this with "git diff --word-diff FILE1 FILE2" and Emacs diff has the "ediff-toggle-autorefine" command. IMO you still need to insert line breaks before they become useful.

GNU has wdiff though I've never used it: https://www.gnu.org/software/wdiff/ (update: the git command above seems to do the same thing)

I'm still looking for an online diff tool that makes the word-level differences obvious. That would be ideal here (my web skills are too weak to make it happen this month).