Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Rationality Quotes November 2011 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Desrtopa 13 January 2013 03:06:12AM 12 points [-]

Alternate explanation: The clock stopped before his wife died, but the nurse recorded 9:21 as his wife's time of death, because she determined the time by checking the clock, not realizing it had already stopped.

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 13 January 2013 03:33:25PM 4 points [-]

Things like this always remind me to doubt clever-sounding explanations of phenomena I wouldn't actually have predicted in advance. Obviously, "not supernatural" is a very strong bet - but the specific hypotheses? Those are less obvious.