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NancyLebovitz comments on New censorship: against hypothetical violence against identifiable people - Less Wrong Discussion

22 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 23 December 2012 09:00PM

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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 24 December 2012 06:43:22PM 0 points [-]

Ambiguity is actually a problem. If people don't know what the policy means, then the person who makes the policy doesn't know what they forbidding or permitting.

Comment author: SoftFlare 24 December 2012 07:29:47PM 2 points [-]

True. I was giving the ambiguity as an example of something people say to claim a policy won't work, without hashing out what that actually means in real execution. Almost every policy is somewhat ambiguous, yet there are many good policies.