gwern comments on Ontologial Reductionism and Invisible Dragons - Less Wrong

-11 Post author: Balofsky 20 March 2012 02:29AM

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Comment author: gwern 20 March 2012 06:59:09PM 5 points [-]

Er... because do you think the Yanomano man is standing there, shaking the non-existent shackles, saying 'weave a basket and bear my children!' every minute of the day? Such guard labor would be impossibly expensive.

So the point stands. They can and do.