hirvinen comments on Rationality Quotes: October 2009 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: hirvinen 23 October 2009 12:15:54AM *  2 points [-]

(approximate, my translation)

Blessed are those who believe without seeing. Who wants to be blessed when they could see.

-- Esa Lappi, my high school math teacher when showing us the proof of some theorem.

Comment author: randallsquared 23 October 2009 02:57:27AM 0 points [-]

Er, if you believe in being blessed to begin with, it's clearly better than seeing.

Comment author: wedrifid 23 October 2009 03:10:50AM 11 points [-]

Lies!

Blessed just gives you a +1 to attack while sight gives you 2 AC, half speed, -4 search, automatically failed spot checks and the 50% miss chance on every attack from total concealment!