RichardKennaway comments on Rationality Quotes September 2014 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: RichardKennaway 14 September 2014 06:48:40AM 4 points [-]

A detailed reading provides room for these to coexist. Compare:

If I added a zero to this number

with

off by less than an order of magnitude

Comment author: [deleted] 14 September 2014 03:23:15PM 2 points [-]

I'd agree with Randall Monroe more wholeheartedly if he had said “added a couple of zeros” instead.