Comment on Rationality Boot Camp

Sat, 02 Apr 2011 02:31:21 GMT

No, it would not occur, any more than it occurs to you, 'how could I design a safe Brownian Motion power plant [using only knowledge available in 1898]?'

Both are strange relatively recently discovered anomalies relating to energy which were poorly understood and were being studied by some of the greatest minds; for neither did it seem likely they would be so practical as to be the source of tremendous amounts of energy. (I emphasized 'tons' for a reason.)

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