NancyLebovitz comments on Rationality Quotes August 2012 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 03 August 2012 03:33:20PM 1 point [-]

I was expecting the attribution to be to Mark Twain. I wonder if their style seems similar on account of being old, or if there's more to it.

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 03 August 2012 06:38:58PM 4 points [-]

Tentatively: rhetoric was studied formally, and Twain and Smith might have been working from similar models.