CronoDAS comments on Rationality Quotes April 2012 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Eugine_Nier 01 April 2012 07:40:33PM 18 points [-]

Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.

G. K. Chesterton

Comment author: CronoDAS 13 April 2012 06:41:39AM 0 points [-]

Since the beginning not one unusual thing has ever happened.

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 13 April 2012 07:03:04AM 1 point [-]

Eliezer's unconventional definition of "strange" is occasionally annoying.

Comment author: wedrifid 13 April 2012 07:45:25AM *  0 points [-]

Eliezer's unconventional definition of "strange" is occasionally annoying.

Strange I would almost accept. But in this case the quote is 'unusual'... that's even worse! Unusual fits squarely into the realm of 'actually happens'.