As the person who suggested “bow out”, I now think “tap out” is also reasonably acceptable.
The older sense of “tap out” is “to run out of money at a gambling establishment”, which seems more similar to running out of time or energy budget for a thread, then signalling submission.
Probably it’s still worth avoiding the confusion by “bow”ing rather than “tap”ping.
Also, for more LessWrong discussion of the phrase along the martial arts lines, see the Tapping Out tag.
Oh interesting. I’m not convinced. I think it would make sense to say “I’m tapped out” if you mean it as an analogy to the running out of your budget version, like “I’m tapped out on energy for this thread”, which is not the same as “I’m tapping out of this debate, you got me”, and is also meaningfully different from the respectful “Thanks for the conversation, I’ll bow out with this comment”.
As the person who suggested “bow out”, I now think “tap out” is also reasonably acceptable.
The older sense of “tap out” is “to run out of money at a gambling establishment”, which seems more similar to running out of time or energy budget for a thread, then signalling submission.
Probably it’s still worth avoiding the confusion by “bow”ing rather than “tap”ping.
Also, for more LessWrong discussion of the phrase along the martial arts lines, see the Tapping Out tag.
Oh interesting. I’m not convinced. I think it would make sense to say “I’m tapped out” if you mean it as an analogy to the running out of your budget version, like “I’m tapped out on energy for this thread”, which is not the same as “I’m tapping out of this debate, you got me”, and is also meaningfully different from the respectful “Thanks for the conversation, I’ll bow out with this comment”.