Comment on Five-minute rationality techniques

Thu, 12 Aug 2010 08:27:38 GMT

How many people, even as smart as us, correctly predicted the sorts of wonder weapons that the intense research pressures that a world war would create in say, 1935? If we're talking about surprising sorts of weapons, I expect not to have been exposed to them, or if I have, to have rejected them out of hand.

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