jimmy comments on Rationality Quotes July 2011 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: nazgulnarsil 03 July 2011 03:17:14PM *  1 point [-]

When you believe in things that you don't understand

Then you suffer

Superstition ain't the way

-Stevie Wonder, Superstition

Comment author: jimmy 04 July 2011 04:54:22AM 5 points [-]

Did he believe in quantum mechanics?

Comment author: Dreaded_Anomaly 06 July 2011 02:22:00AM 2 points [-]

He is still alive.

Comment author: tlholaday 06 July 2011 05:54:17PM 1 point [-]

But is he suffering?

Comment author: RolfAndreassen 06 July 2011 10:32:36PM 1 point [-]

Perhaps he both believes it and understands it. The subject is not, after all, so complex as is usually thought. Or, conversely, perhaps he believes it in the sense of professing "Yes, QM is true", but does not have any strong beliefs in the sense of anticipation-constrainers.