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Qiaochu_Yuan comments on Antijargon Project - Less Wrong Discussion

12 Post author: jkaufman 05 May 2013 05:26PM

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Comment author: Qiaochu_Yuan 06 May 2013 08:40:16AM *  6 points [-]

Examples? I'm not sure I understand what sort of jargon you particularly want to cut. The kind of jargon I use in my day-to-day work (mathematics) is more or less indispensable.

Comment author: jkaufman 06 May 2013 01:24:11PM *  9 points [-]

In a lesswrong context this would be avoiding saying things like "that's inconsistent with my model of you", "I'll need to update on that", or "that charity is nearly donkey-sanctuary in it's fuzzies to utilons ratio".