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gwern on Oct 23, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: "Information Is Cheap, Meaning Is Expensive"

It seems to me like he's just trying to sound deep, as opposed to be deep ( http://lesswrong.com/lw/k8/how_to_seem_and_be_deep/ ).

gruseom on Oct 23, 2011 | [–]

I can see why you'd say that about the quote, but I'm pretty sure he's not pretentious in that way.

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