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Stabilizer 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: Stabilizer 06 December 2013 11:48:29PM 6 points [-]

I don't get why this is here.

Comment author: [deleted] 09 December 2013 02:25:23PM 1 point [-]

Well, my thoughts when I posted it were that my wife and I appear to use the word "heart" as a personal example of a semantic stop sign to avoid having mushy spousal conversations go too meta, and it seems to fit the criteria of most of the other examples. Is there something that I'm not seeing that makes it different?

Comment author: Stabilizer 10 December 2013 01:30:27AM 1 point [-]

I guess I was implicitly looking for detrimental semantic stop signs. I was confused at seeing a useful one.

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