Strange7 comments on Rationality Quotes March 2012 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Strange7 07 March 2012 08:05:40AM 1 point [-]

Might also have been an attitude like a lot of people have today, along the lines of :

Let's build something that works repeatably for trivial stuff under laboratory conditions first, to see what that tells us about the fundamental capabilities and limitations. We can spec out a control mechanism resilient enough to keep working in the field once someone's actually planning a full-scale prototype.