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Machine learning in Microsoft Word’s new Editor gave me the frights
- brudgers 10y agoRemoving 'maybe' might be useful for writing or speech that is intended to persuade someone else or with an online argument (or perhaps even intended to spark one). When I'm trying to communicate my thinking, my thinking is often, but not always, probabilistic (but always fallible). Words like 'maybe' convey the state of my mind rather than depicting a world which I can imagine to be the case...or one I might wish to imagine to be the case for really good reasons or for the sake of presenting a winnable argument. All that with the caveat that Socrates is a personal hero. He didn't just talk the talk, he walked the walk all against the rhetoricians. Standard writing advice is to write dishonestly in five paragraphs as if for a grade. The standard is PR wire press releases rather than Cervantes.