Giles comments on Rationality Quotes March 2012 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: [deleted] 01 March 2012 10:47:51AM 30 points [-]

Meh. That's just hindsight bias.

All truths are easy to understand when they are revealed; what's hard is to find them out.

Galileo Galilei (translated by me)

Comment author: Giles 04 March 2012 03:05:55PM 4 points [-]

I would say instead that many truths are easy to understand once you understand them. But still hard to explain to other people.

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