billswift comments on Several Topics that May or May Not deserve their own Post - Less Wrong

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Comment author: billswift 29 November 2011 08:07:56PM *  0 points [-]

Agreed that asking yourself why isn't childish, nor as in my earlier post is it "lazy" to ask it of yourself, but I don't think it is particularly useful either. "Why?" is too big a question to answer. You need to break it down into answerable bites, as science does as a practical matter in requiring testable hypotheses.

Comment author: dlthomas 30 November 2011 02:21:34AM 0 points [-]

Right. "Why?" is a starting point.