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GabrielDuquette comments on Elevator pitches/responses for rationality / AI - Less Wrong Discussion

17 Post author: lukeprog 02 February 2012 08:35PM

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Comment author: RobertLumley 02 February 2012 10:01:05PM 9 points [-]

First, a general comment on your versions, sorry: you tend to use big words, scientific jargon, and too few examples.

And doing that is going to instantly turn people off.

Comment author: [deleted] 02 February 2012 10:22:32PM *  4 points [-]

True.

Math, et al, are like magic words that instantly turn real interest into feigned interest (if there was any real interest to begin with).