sketerpot comments on Rationality Quotes: December 2010 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: anonym 03 December 2010 08:36:05AM 30 points [-]

Truth is much too complicated to allow anything but approximations.

— John Von Neumann

Comment author: sketerpot 05 December 2010 06:02:08AM 4 points [-]

Incidentally, he was one of the main people behind the invention of Monte Carlo methods for approximating things that were too complicated to calculate exactly.