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Gram_Stone comments on Open thread Jan. 5-11, 2015 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Gram_Stone 09 January 2015 02:54:03PM *  2 points [-]

Extraneous considerations of extraneous yet harmless quantitativeness would have been similarly suboptimal. The pseudo-quantativeness also has a positive effect upon the tone of the passage, for everyone but the one in a million who notice its extremely technical inaccuracy. This is not math, but writing.