Daniel_Burfoot comments on Rationality Quotes - September 2009 - Less Wrong

2 Post author: thomblake 01 September 2009 03:06PM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Tags: quotes

Comments (101)

Sort By: Best

You are viewing a single comment's thread. Show more comments above.

Comment author: Daniel_Burfoot 02 September 2009 03:10:53PM 1 point [-]

to speak of knowledge that cannot be Googled even in principle is nonsense.

Roger Federer knows a hell of a lot about how to play tennis; I can't imagine any meaningful way of indexing and searching that knowledge.

Comment author: wedrifid 30 September 2009 12:34:35PM 0 points [-]

And as long as you acknowledge that this is a limitation of your own imagination (and abilities) and not that of the universe it is not nonsensical.