Blueberry comments on Rationality Quotes January 2010 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Blueberry 09 January 2010 10:10:48AM 1 point [-]

There's some equivocation here. "Ridiculous" can mean, as the etymology would suggest, "that which should be ridiculed", or it can mean "not sensible". In the latter case, the ridiculous should not necessarily be ridiculed.