IlyaShpitser comments on Rationality Quotes November 2012 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: IlyaShpitser 09 November 2012 08:06:03PM 1 point [-]

Judea Pearl always gives Abraham arguing with God about Sodom and Gomorrah as the example of the first recorded scientist. The point of science is the discovery of rules (in Abraham's case the rule for collective punishment).