RobinZ comments on Rationality Quotes: October 2009 - Less Wrong

7 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 22 October 2009 04:06PM

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Comment author: PeterS 22 October 2009 07:09:39PM * 7 points [-]

Dear Meg,

Please don't try to trisect the angle. . . It's not a matter of being clever.

Ian Stewart, Letters to a Young Mathematician

Comment author: RobinZ 22 October 2009 08:23:52PM 7 points [-]

I don't know if I like this one. One ought to try some things, if for no other reason to learn which sources of information are reliable.