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Raemon comments on The 12 Second Rule (i.e. think before answering) and other Epistemic Norms - Less Wrong Discussion

17 Post author: Raemon 05 September 2016 11:08PM

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Comment author: Raemon 06 September 2016 05:18:37PM 0 points [-]

"12 seconds" was chosen mostly to be easier to remember. I think it's totally fine if people end up taking 10 or 15. (If people tend to get fixated on the number 12 we can come up with some other name, but so far "think before answering" had seemed less memorable than "12 second rule")