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VoiceOfRa comments on The horrifying importance of domain knowledge - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Lumifer 06 August 2015 01:55:13AM 3 points [-]

he can't do that if the address says, "That one old guy who lives in the village over by the river".

As a nitpick -- yes, he can. In the third world it's not uncommon to NOT have a working system of usual addresses and locations are typically specified as town -- local landmark -- directions from that local landmark.

Comment author: VoiceOfRa 06 August 2015 03:22:21AM 1 point [-]

Of course, you're much less likely to be shipping a package to those kinds of third world countries, and even if you did, you'd have trouble making sure it gets delivered to its destination for other reasons.