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Will_Newsome 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: Will_Newsome 07 December 2013 01:45:22PM 3 points [-]

Sometimes legitimate, oftentimes not: "coincidence", "good/bad", "fair/unfair", "value", "intrinsic value", "prior", "Occam's razor". Seeing "universal prior" used as a semantic stop sign makes me especially disgusted. "Disgust".