komponisto comments on Ben Goertzel: The Singularity Institute's Scary Idea (and Why I Don't Buy It) - Less Wrong

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Comment author: orthonormal 06 November 2010 01:15:10AM * 0 points [-]

Indeed. Before Darwin, design was a respectable-to-overwhelming hypothesis for the order of the natural world.

ETA: On second thought, that's too strong of a claim. See replies below.

Comment author: komponisto 06 November 2010 02:35:57PM 0 points [-]

On the other hand, there wasn't a whole lot of honest, systematic searching for other hypotheses before Darwin either.

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