Apparently you can select the text, and then add a ‘reaction’, and one of the reactions is ‘this is a typo’. And then a barely visible marker pops up next to the text. Maybe you already know this, but I just figured it out, and there could be other newbies that missed it.
I’m always scared of pointing out typos, because on LessWrong it feels like everything you say should be super important, so I am very glad the ‘typo’ reaction exists. Although I first need 5 karma, so I am not allowed to point out typos before I post some meaningful stuff.
Edit: Oh dear, now I read the text again, and it’s really not clear if ‘plause’ is a typo.
It’s pretty clearly a nonce backformation from “plausible”. There’s some small chance the author wasn’t aware that it wasn’t already an “established” word and would have written something else if they had known it wasn’t, but basically zero chance they meant to type some specific other word but typed “plause” instead by accident.
typo?
I think it’s fairly clearly a small joke.
Apparently you can select the text, and then add a ‘reaction’, and one of the reactions is ‘this is a typo’. And then a barely visible marker pops up next to the text. Maybe you already know this, but I just figured it out, and there could be other newbies that missed it.
I’m always scared of pointing out typos, because on LessWrong it feels like everything you say should be super important, so I am very glad the ‘typo’ reaction exists. Although I first need 5 karma, so I am not allowed to point out typos before I post some meaningful stuff.
Edit: Oh dear, now I read the text again, and it’s really not clear if ‘plause’ is a typo.
It’s pretty clearly a nonce backformation from “plausible”. There’s some small chance the author wasn’t aware that it wasn’t already an “established” word and would have written something else if they had known it wasn’t, but basically zero chance they meant to type some specific other word but typed “plause” instead by accident.