GabrielDuquette comments on Rationality Quotes October 2012 - Less Wrong

8 Post author: MBlume 02 October 2012 06:50PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 08 October 2012 04:54:18PM *  0 points [-]

Going to bed early and getting up early is no guarantee of health, wealth, or wisdom. Plus it's clever.

Comment author: johnlawrenceaspden 08 October 2012 05:37:59PM 2 points [-]

But it might cause it. Or it might not. If there's a correlation then that's interesting, surely? There's no smoke without a misunderstanding of causality.

Comment author: [deleted] 08 October 2012 06:54:43PM 1 point [-]

Sure, she's slightly sacrificing accuracy on the altar of cleverness by not phrasing it "might make a man etc etc."