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Comment author: lessdazed 14 August 2011 11:58:47AM * 3 points [-]

the scientific method is wrong

Is your refrigerator running?

Time isn't real.

Rainbows are real.

Computers will soon become so fast that AI researchers will be able to create an artificial intelligence that's smarter than any human.

Not Kurzweil...anything but that

When this happens humanity will probably be wiped out.

Marxist-style fatalism? Worse than Kurzweil.

truth of all these statements is completely obvious

Obviousness isn't a property of statements or facts. This idiom of thought embodies the mind projection fallacy.

Comment author: Grognor 16 March 2012 11:24:43AM 0 points [-]

Obviousness isn't a property of statements or facts. This idiom of thought embodies the mind projection fallacy.

I would certainly have quoted you, had I seen this comment earlier.

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