wedrifid comments on Meditation, insight, and rationality. (Part 2 of 3) - Less Wrong

25 Post author: DavidM 04 May 2011 10:38PM

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Comment author: wedrifid 05 May 2011 03:50:58AM 0 points [-]

and somewhat lower higher math can figure out the area under curves and so forth.

Just, unfortunately, not how to get access to them.

Comment author: TimFreeman 05 May 2011 08:37:55PM 1 point [-]

Just, unfortunately, not how to get access to them.

I had to search around a bit to figure out what he meant, but now I think wedrifid is mocking this sentence from the original post:

My personal belief is that it is a member of a family of closely-related meditation styles which are the most effective known styles for teaching contemporary Westerners, but establishing that convincingly requires data to which I don't have access.

Comment author: Gabriel 05 May 2011 09:27:14PM 3 points [-]

I thought he was making a joke about the inadequacy of mathematics as a tool of sexual conquest.

Comment author: wedrifid 05 May 2011 09:55:14PM 1 point [-]

Wow, I sound cryptic and deep. Or would if I wasn't casually low brow. (Gabriel nailed it.)