lukeprog comments on Rationality Quotes September 2011 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: lukeprog 16 September 2011 12:53:43AM 14 points [-]

It is remarkable that [probability theory], which originated in the consideration of games of chance, should have become the most important object of human knowledge... The most important questions of life are, for the most part, really only problems of probability.

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