Robin comments on Rationality Quotes: February 2011 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Robin 02 February 2011 06:13:11PM -1 points [-]

"Everything works by magick; science represents a small domain of magick where coincidences have a relatively high probability of occurrence."

Comment author: false_vacuum 04 February 2011 12:55:27AM 2 points [-]

Does this merely call attention to the high probability of the existence of unknown unknowns, or does it promote map-territory confusion?

Comment author: mkehrt 05 February 2011 07:15:12AM 0 points [-]

I totally knew who said that. Does that make me a bad rationalist?