ArisKatsaris comments on Rationality Quotes November 2011 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: ArisKatsaris 01 November 2011 11:01:13PM *  17 points [-]

If I let go of a hammer on a planet that has a positive gravity, I need not see it fall to know that it has in fact fallen. [...] Gentlemen, human beings have characteristics just as inanimate objects do.

-Spock, "Court Martial", Star Trek: The Original Series

Comment author: [deleted] 03 November 2011 05:33:53PM *  9 points [-]

on a planet that has a positive gravity

Heh.

Comment author: Desrtopa 11 November 2011 10:49:58PM 0 points [-]

The universe of Star Trek could get pretty weird.

Comment author: Jayson_Virissimo 03 November 2011 02:43:41PM *  -1 points [-]

Wait...theory trumps data?

Comment author: Oscar_Cunningham 03 November 2011 03:34:05PM *  6 points [-]

If Spock wasn't looking then he has no data. The theory makes predictions. That's the point of theories.

EDIT: See "Belief in the Implied Invisible"

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