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Comment author: Roger 06 April 2010 12:56:31AM 0 points [-]

Amanojack,

Hi. I agree with you completely and like the phrase "religion for intellectuals". I just don't see the difference in saying that numbers and mathematics exist somewhere but we can never show you where and saying that other things exist somewhere but we can't show you where. But, trying to get even very intelligent people (ie, your example of Goedel) to see this or even listen to this type of reasoning seems almost impossible. Oh, well! Thanks!
Roger
Comment author: Amanojack 06 April 2010 02:11:07PM 4 points [-]

One thing I've noticed that is probably covered somewhere in LW archive (I hope!) is that really smart and rational people can sometimes just be really good at hiding the truth from themselves. In other words, the smarter you are, the better you are at Dark Arts, and the easiest person to trick with Dark Arts is sometimes yourself.

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