ciphergoth comments on Harper's Magazine article on LW/MIRI/CFAR and Ethereum - Less Wrong

44 Post author: gwern 12 December 2014 08:34PM

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Comment author: ciphergoth 13 December 2014 08:37:41AM 17 points [-]

Never mind comparing; simply writing "Women made up 11.2% of respondents, 21.3% were not straight..." would have put a very different spin on it.

Comment author: chaosmage 14 December 2014 09:56:53AM 1 point [-]

Sorry, I don't see it. How would that've been different?

Comment author: ciphergoth 14 December 2014 04:40:48PM 10 points [-]

For the same reason they write "90% fat free" on foods rather than "10% fat".