hairyfigment comments on 2-Place and 1-Place Words - Less Wrong

46 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 27 June 2008 07:39AM

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Comment author: hairyfigment 07 April 2012 03:14:34PM 0 points [-]

While Korzybski got this one right, the programming analogy gives us a better picture of how the ambiguity might work. It also points to where EY wants to go in this sequence (I don't think that quite counts as begging the question).