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Zetetic comments on Tidbit: “Semantic over-achievers” - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Zetetic 01 December 2011 06:46:48PM *  0 points [-]

There's a related problem; Humans have a tendency to once they have terms for something take for granted that something that looks at a glance to make rough syntactic sense that it actually has semantics behind it.

Isn't this the same issue we see with surface analogies and cached thoughts?

Comment author: JoshuaZ 01 December 2011 08:16:33PM 1 point [-]

I'm not sure. Cached thoughts generally make semantic sense. So I'm not sure this is the same thing. The surface analogy issue does seem closer though.

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