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Warrigal comments on Open thread, September 9-15, 2013 - Less Wrong Discussion

3 Post author: Metus 09 September 2013 04:50AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 15 September 2013 04:35:49AM 1 point [-]

In what context would you actually use XXXXX? My response to that may be something like "The problem you've solved is not the problem I have."

(Half-joking suggestion: the word should be "to shoelace", because "XXXXX" resembles a shoelace.)

Comment author: sixes_and_sevens 15 September 2013 08:07:22PM 0 points [-]

I would probably use it to politely terminate that line of discussion while simultaneously explaining why I want to terminate it.