staircasewit comments on Rationality quotes - May 2009 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: staircasewit 20 May 2009 10:45:49PM 6 points [-]

"If our Gods and our hopes are nothing but scientific phenomena, then let us admit it must be said that our love is scientific as well." -Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam

I desire to know which interpretation of this quote was intended by the author, but I know which one I prefer.

Comment author: gwern 25 May 2009 03:55:26AM 0 points [-]

I once read his Tomorrow's Eve (hoping to understand the allusion to it in Ghost in the Shell).

After puzzling through, I suspect he meant both.