scav comments on Rationality Quotes February 2013 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: scav 07 February 2013 04:13:25PM 12 points [-]

But I've never seen the Icarus story as a lesson about the limitations of humans. I see it as a lesson about the limitations of wax as an adhesive.

-- Randall Munroe

Comment author: BerryPick6 07 February 2013 04:25:22PM 2 points [-]

Definitely a double, but I can't link the others right now.

Comment author: scav 07 February 2013 04:43:35PM 1 point [-]

I thought that unlikely, because it's from last week's XKCD What If?

Maybe Randall has said it before (or borrowed it from someone else).

Comment author: JGWeissman 07 February 2013 04:48:16PM 8 points [-]

Earlier posting

Comment author: scav 08 February 2013 04:34:50PM 0 points [-]

OK thanks.

I don't know why I didn't see it - I tried searching the page for Icarus before posting :(

Comment author: JGWeissman 08 February 2013 04:47:32PM 1 point [-]

I tried searching the page for Icarus before posting

I searched on the entire quote. That's probably easier and more reliable than trying to pick out a keyword.

Comment author: gryffinp 15 February 2013 08:55:05PM 0 points [-]

Well, that post was from the January thread. If you only Control-F'd this page, then it wouldn't have come up.

Comment author: tgb 07 February 2013 04:42:13PM 0 points [-]

That seems unlikely; the quote above was only posted about three weeks ago and nothing about Icarus turns up in a search. Can anyone find a duplicate?

Comment author: BerryPick6 07 February 2013 05:08:31PM 5 points [-]

Two, in fact.

Comment author: Qiaochu_Yuan 07 February 2013 06:14:03PM 2 points [-]

It was three, but I deleted mine.

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