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lmm comments on Personal examples of semantic stopsigns - Less Wrong Discussion

44 Post author: Alexei 06 December 2013 02:12AM

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Comment author: lmm 06 December 2013 05:52:19PM 1 point [-]

It makes it explicit that you're skipping some steps.

Comment author: fubarobfusco 07 December 2013 03:29:52AM 2 points [-]

An explicit, but polite, way to say that you're skipping some steps: "I'm skipping some steps here."

Saying that something "is obvious" can come across as insulting the competence of anyone in the audience who doesn't take it as obvious.