AdeleneDawner comments on Rationality Quotes August 2011 - Less Wrong

3 Post author: dvasya 02 August 2011 08:24PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 02 August 2011 08:43:01PM 13 points [-]

"[I]f function is hard enough, form is forced to follow it, because there is no effort to spare for error. Wild animals are beautiful because they have hard lives."

Paul Graham

Comment author: AdeleneDawner 03 August 2011 01:35:41AM 41 points [-]
Comment author: Armok_GoB 08 August 2011 11:54:58AM 0 points [-]

Are you implying those are not beautiful?

Comment author: AdeleneDawner 08 August 2011 12:04:07PM 4 points [-]

That was the intention, yes, and I expect that significantly less than 0.1% of humans would classify all of those examples as neutral or better in appearance if asked in a context with no significant priming on the matter.