Strange7 comments on Undiscriminating Skepticism - Less Wrong

97 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 14 March 2010 11:23PM

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Comment author: Eneasz 18 March 2010 07:37:45PM 6 points [-]

I had a very similar UFO sighting, just a couple months ago. Fortunately I've been consuming rationalist media for a long time, and I was able to say "There is a non-magic answer to this question, just because I don't know the answer doesn't mean UFOs exist. My map is incomplete, but the territory isn't magic."

It doesn't make the creepy shiver-up-your-spine and cold-knot-in-your-stomach feelings go away, those are biological reactions. But it does let you accept them and ride them out, like the cramp you know will go away in a while that isn't ACTUALLY a knife in your leg, no matter how much it feels like it.

Comment author: Strange7 27 June 2011 08:56:02AM 0 points [-]

If it's an object, it's suspended in the air ("flying"), and you haven't identified it's nature or origin in any meaningful way, then in the most ham-fistedly literal sense, it's an Unidentified Flying Object. What am I missing, here?

Comment author: Eneasz 28 June 2011 03:49:07PM 5 points [-]

While it may literally mean "unidentified flying object", in the USA it is synonymous for "Extra-Terrestrial Craft"