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

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

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Comment author: Good_Burning_Plastic 11 September 2015 08:22:45AM 13 points [-]

Huh, lemme do it.

Schelling fence → bright-line rule

Semantic stopsign → thought-terminating cliché

Anti-inductiveness → reverse Tinkerbell effect

"0 and 1 are not probabilities" → Cromwell's rule

Tapping out → agreeing to disagree (which sometimes confuses LWers when they take the latter literally (see last paragraph of linked comment))

ETA (edited to add) → PS (post scriptum)

That's off the top of my head, but I think I've seen more.

Comment author: Vaniver 11 September 2015 02:16:10PM 1 point [-]

Thanks for the list!

I am amused by this section of Anti-Inductiveness in this context, though:

Not that this is standard terminology - but perhaps "efficient market" doesn't convey quite the same warning as "anti-inductive". We would appear to need stronger warnings.