Re: META: Enforcement of mandatory subject labeling

From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Sat Mar 29 2003 - 10:14:21 MST

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    John K Clark wrote:
    > There has been a request to label posts that deal with certain events in a
    > country whose name must not be spoken. I'm happy to comply but I am curious,
    > what's the big deal? The time it takes to set up elaborate filters and write
    > posts complaining that other posts are not properly labeled is much longer
    > than just hitting the old delete button. Is it really the end of the world
    > if you happen to see a few words of it in the fraction of a second before it
    > enters electronic heaven?

    I think it'll take less work to do this than to spend the next several
    months wading through all the SUBJECT LINES IN CAPITAL LETTERS - it's
    getting hard to even see the real posts between all the others.

    -- 
    Eliezer S. Yudkowsky                          http://singinst.org/
    Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
    


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