Luke_A_Somers comments on Curiosity: Why did you mega-downvote "AI is Software" ? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Luke_A_Somers 06 June 2014 12:46:55PM 3 points [-]

Tips, meant in the spirit of improvement (I didn't see the original post, but deduce that style and usage improvements would have helped):

10 repetitions is too many (see below concerning 'too')

If Y is 'too' X, that is not great. If it's great, then Y is not too X, but can be very X.

I understand that by 'spectrum' you mean autistic spectrum, but the point of that word is the continuum, which means it's not a quality but a parameter. You don't say 'It's too temperature', but 'It's too hot'. Here, you could say 'My brother and father are way out on the autism spectrum.'

Of course, I don't think that position on the autistic spectrum is really the problem here, so let's not muddy waters.