komponisto comments on Rationality Quotes August 2011 - Less Wrong
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Not really. I have a reaction like that to non-Euclidean geometry, but I don't know many things it can be used for.
Despite the fact that "non-Euclidean geometry" may sound like something that only concerns people in ivory towers, we all know of lots of things that aren't straight and flat, but instead are curved, bent, or distorted.