GuySrinivasan comments on Open Thread - Aug 24 - Aug 30 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: GuySrinivasan 27 August 2015 05:53:15PM 0 points [-]

"any objection must take the form of a counterproposal"

Most of my social circle says "dinner semantics" to mean exactly this. So far we've skirted but basically avoided the trap of gaming it by bluffing - proposing an option you know is unacceptable to force someone else to propose.