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> Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments

Unsubstantive: not substantial; having no foundation in fact; fanciful

Imagine if you (and others) had to compete on a platform where you can't BRUTALLY misuse words that have specific, broadly accepted meanings, a platform where instead of powerful people (that's you) using language tricks like the one you are using here against the powerless with no repercussions, the tables were turned (as in: this, and many similar behaviors, have been directly targeted in the design as fundamental Human/Reality problems to be solved, once and for all).

Impossible? Query Paul Graham on whether he thinks this is impossible. Paul is a clever man, and I know it.



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