TheOtherDave comments on Replace the Symbol with the Substance - Less Wrong

34 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 16 February 2008 06:12PM

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Comment author: TheOtherDave 03 November 2010 12:37:46AM 14 points [-]

a "degree" is a piece of paper with some writing on it,

More relevantly in my own life, a degree is a tag attached to my name that changes the way a variety of real-world sorting algorithms (e.g., employers) evaluate it.