Elund comments on How An Algorithm Feels From Inside - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Elund 21 October 2014 06:39:38AM 0 points [-]

I personally prefer names to be self-explanatory. Therefore, in this example I would consider a "blegg" to be a blue egg, regardless of its other qualities, and a "rube" to be a red cube, regardless of its other qualities. I suspect many other people would have a similar intuition.