Bugmaster comments on Rationality Quotes December 2011 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Bugmaster 06 December 2011 07:17:46PM 20 points [-]

-- You can look at the stars and say "they sure are pretty" without having to calculate how many light-years away each one is.
-- Not if you want to get to them someday.

-- Questionable Content #2072

Comment author: Raemon 06 December 2011 09:26:49PM 0 points [-]

Saw this today, and wanted to yell at Marigold.

Comment author: kpreid 08 December 2011 03:28:21PM 2 points [-]

Why?

Sure, discounting the value of understanding is bad, but so is the Straw-Vulcan excessive attention to detail irrelevant to the current situation.

Comment author: Desrtopa 12 December 2011 03:17:24PM 1 point [-]

Well, flippantly trivializing other people's passions in conversation with them is generally assholish behavior.

Besides which, glass houses, unless she's dying to be asked why keeping up with her guild raids in World of Warcraft is so important.