Furcas comments on Scott Aaronson's "On Self-Delusion and Bounded Rationality" - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Furcas 19 August 2009 11:19:06PM 2 points [-]

I was making a point about human thought processes, not human desires. I agree that it's unlikely that the greatest epistemic rationalist would want to have a relationship with a YEC, but if s/he did want to, s/he could.

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 19 August 2009 11:38:31PM 6 points [-]

If I were otherwise unattached, I would totally have a relationship with a YEC, if she was from a world which had actually been created 6000 years ago. Otherwise no.

Comment author: Alicorn 20 August 2009 12:02:35AM 8 points [-]

What if she was just from a world where lots of evidence pointed to it having been created 6,000 years ago, but it was really created last Thursday?

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 20 August 2009 12:17:16AM 14 points [-]

Is she hot?

...okay, that was a bit out of character, but I think that at that point in the thread I basically had no choice but to say that.