bogdanb comments on Free copy of Feynman's autobiography for best corny rationalist joke - Less Wrong

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Comment author: bogdanb 06 April 2010 06:47:03PM 0 points [-]

I don’t get it.

Comment author: MattPrather 11 April 2010 10:15:22PM 5 points [-]

The point is that none of us is rational.

Dorian Gray never aged because he had a magic picture of himself which actually aged for him; his image in the portrait got older and older even as he himself stayed the same age.

So a true rationalist would have a magic picture of himself "being irrational", as humans do, in his stead.

Comment author: steven0461 06 April 2010 06:49:12PM 2 points [-]
Comment author: bogdanb 08 April 2010 07:32:52AM 0 points [-]

That’s the only reference that came to my head, but how is it related to rationalism specifically?