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satt comments on Terminology Thread (or "name that pattern") - Less Wrong Discussion

8 Post author: sixes_and_sevens 03 July 2014 11:47AM

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Comment author: satt 14 July 2014 12:48:43AM 0 points [-]

Yes, people sometimes use "rational" to refer to that too. But using the word in that sense on LW has a much bigger risk of muddying the meaning of the term here, since the word's local canonical meaning is quite different.