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falenas108 comments on Creating a Text Shorthand for Uncertainty - Less Wrong Discussion

6 Post author: ozziegooen 19 October 2013 04:46PM

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Comment author: falenas108 19 October 2013 06:25:09PM 0 points [-]

While this sounds like it would be useful, it would also turn a lot of people off to the site ~i4

Comment author: ozziegooen 19 October 2013 11:33:38PM 1 point [-]

I'm not suggesting that we make this a mandated LessWrong policy, but I think it may be fun to play with personally ~i4. I imagine that something more sensical would be created after some thought and work ~i2.

Also it could make a lot of sense for an organization to accept a standard like this rather than a blog community. For instance, many startups or EA orgs already use a lot of internal jargon ~e3i2, so something like this doesn't seem like a clear negative in that light ~i2.

Concerning the appearance aspect, it may be possible to hide the phrases (similar to the markdown mention earlier) with a small symbol that one could "inspect" when interested.