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tenshiko comments on Overcoming the Curse of Knowledge - Less Wrong Discussion

42 Post author: JesseGalef 18 October 2011 05:39PM

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Comment author: tenshiko 21 October 2011 03:20:57AM 0 points [-]

At the very least "aerosol", "uncertainty", and "positive" have the "public" connotations even in well-educated humanities circles. There are some terms of science that simply are used differently, positive probably the most obvious.