NihilCredo comments on Rationality Quotes: July 2010 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: NihilCredo 02 July 2010 05:43:36PM 1 point [-]

But that discussion was about science. Nonhuman science is the same thing as human science, so discriminating is irrational. Nonhuman art is (will) not be (necessarily) the same as human art, and it is quite possible that it will not be at all enjoyable by humans.

Comment author: SilasBarta 02 July 2010 05:46:27PM *  2 points [-]

But it will (likely) be the case that people's opinions about particular artwork will dive sharply downward upon learning it was mostly the work of a computer, even as the pre-revelation opinion is higher than average.

Comment author: soreff 05 July 2010 03:00:44AM 1 point [-]

Nonhuman science is the same thing as human science

And the experimental evidence for this is what?

More substantially - it is perfectly possible to have a great deal of difference in the emphasis placed on various subfields in the sciences. If we'd gone directly from vacuum tubes to Drexler/Merkle nanotechnology, do you think semiconductor device physics would have been studied as deeply as it has been?