Lumifer comments on Symbolic Gestures – Salutes For Effective Altruists To Identify Each Other - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Lumifer 21 January 2016 09:31:58PM * 6 points [-]

Imagine Obama or Elon Musk one day gives this gesture while talking about, say, foreign aid to Africa. Then you know that he's with us

/rolls eyes

This is middle-school Secret Club for Spies and Benefactors of Humanity crap.

By the way, what you describe is known in politics as a "dog whistle" :-P