Armok_GoB comments on Rationality Quotes: February 2011 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Armok_GoB 08 February 2011 01:55:32PM 9 points [-]

Ok, so it seems almost everyone got a different idea of who the giants and the men were. Children and adults, pets and humans, humans and gods, governments and populations (in both directions!), humans and computers...

My first impulse upon seeing this, is that this must be a very general phenomena that occurs in a great spectrum of situations. That all these different situations are isomorpic towards one another. The next is that we should come up with a generalized theory for the concept and maybe make up a word to access the concept quicker.