Viliam comments on Why Don't Rationalists Win? - Less Wrong

6 Post author: adamzerner 05 September 2015 12:57AM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (99)

You are viewing a single comment's thread. Show more comments above.

Comment author: Viliam 10 September 2015 08:32:02PM *  3 points [-]

Has anyone put together a translation dictionary?

It was many times debated on LW whether LW needlessly invents new words for already existing terms, or whether the new words label things that are not considered elsewhere.

I don't remember the outcomes of those debates. It seems to me they usually went like this:

"LW invents new words for many things that already have standard names."
"Can you give me five examples?"
"What LW calls X is called Y everywhere else." (provides only one example)
"Actually X is not the same concept as Y."
"Yes it is."
"It is not."
...

So I guess at the end both sides believe they have won the debate.