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kolya911 comments on A Weird Trick To Manage Your Identity - Less Wrong Discussion

2 Post author: Gleb_Tsipursky 19 September 2016 07:13PM

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Comment author: kolya911 06 October 2016 02:16:40AM *  1 point [-]

I got banned from Gleb's intentional insights for speaking my mind about this article.

This argues for creation of pseudo-speak or 1984 newspeak where commonly understood word gets a new "fuzzier" meaning...

"I'm a weird lawyer, I sometimes like when my clients lose" lets me forget that I'm actually paid to be an advocate for any client that retained me.

Play out a few examples in your mind and you see how quickly very firm word-concepts lose meaning