gwern comments on Rationality Quotes September 2012 - Less Wrong

7 Post author: Jayson_Virissimo 03 September 2012 05:18AM

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Comment author: gwern 11 September 2012 08:01:23PM 0 points [-]

That's an unfortunate example. The teacher should have amended his maggot example to 'the first living cell', then.

Comment author: Vaniver 11 September 2012 08:03:51PM *  3 points [-]

Traditional Spontaneous generation and modern abiogenesis are very different things, and comments that assume the first may be invalid if only the second is true.

Comment author: gwern 11 September 2012 08:24:53PM 2 points [-]

They may have differences... but are they any that matter for that Buddhist typology of creation?