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IMO, there is this common habit in lesswrong of creating new words that sound smart, as if they cannot "stop trying to make it a thing". If justified, I don't n
by mejutoco 3y ago
IMO, there is this common habit in lesswrong of creating new words that sound smart, as if they cannot "stop trying to make it a thing". If justified, I don't normally see a problem with that (like fractal, from Mandelbrot).
It feels like it is not enough to talk about a concept, we need mega-utilons, or hyper-tail-distribution. As if they wanted to sell you a best-seller at an airport about this new concept. I have been disappointed in enough articles there that use these new concepts to hide flaws in argumentation, to not bother with lesswrong.
- inconceivable 3y agothey should just rename the site to iamverysmart.com