gjm comments on Rationality Quotes April 2012 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: gjm 12 April 2012 10:14:54PM 4 points [-]

Leaving aside the dubiousness of calling the way the universe actually works "nonsense" and "mad": It seems very, very, very unlikely that anything in Lewis Carroll's writings was a metaphor for quantum mechanics. He died in 1898.

(I suppose something can be used as a metaphor for quantum mechanics without having been intended as one, though.)