PeterS comments on Rationality Quotes: November 2010 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: PeterS 05 November 2010 04:13:58AM 0 points [-]

Numberplates?

Comment author: wedrifid 05 November 2010 04:30:23AM 1 point [-]

"The chance that the numberplate of my first car was EIT411 is one in a whole lot. Wow! It happened! There must be a God!" (crudely speaking.)

This seems to be relevant to, for example, yabbering on about the exact speeds of Saturn et. al. The Saturns that were going the wrong speed all fell in to the sun (or cleared off into space.)

Comment author: PeterS 05 November 2010 10:27:48AM 1 point [-]

Oh... I in no way endorse the above argument! Pierre-Simon Laplace's, a century or so after Newton, gave a naturalistic model of how the Solar System could have developed. "Rationality quotes" is not only about sharing words of wisdom, but also words of folly.

Comment author: wedrifid 05 November 2010 10:44:00AM 0 points [-]

:) I certainly wasn't intending to accuse you.