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Romashka comments on The value of ambiguous speech - Less Wrong Discussion

4 Post author: KevinGrant 30 November 2015 07:58AM

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Comment author: Romashka 07 December 2015 11:42:27AM 0 points [-]

mental difference...between March and June.

Maybe for ordinary people (like me), the mental difference between March and June is not just the number of days separating them, and does not equal MD between, say, July and October. Calling them by numbers would mean having to re-tie the connotation tails to new symbols, nothing more.