GabrielDuquette comments on The problem with too many rational memes - Less Wrong

80 Post author: Swimmer963 19 January 2012 12:56AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 18 January 2012 04:43:41AM 2 points [-]

if the choice is between being a mediocre-to-poor physicist or an awesome nurse, I'd pick being an awesome nurse any day.

At least you get to choose between two careers that value empiricism. Being an artist and practicing good epistemic hygiene really puts a new spin on the "guy with one eye in the land of the blind" adage. That cyclopean bastard would probably be burned at the stake for heresy.

Comment author: beoShaffer 18 January 2012 04:50:35AM 2 points [-]

Unsuprisingly, there is a short story about that http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Country_of_the_Blind.

Comment author: CronoDAS 20 January 2012 11:13:16PM 1 point [-]