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113 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 23 December 2006 04:50AM

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Comment author: markrkrebs 06 March 2010 01:53:56PM *  1 point [-]

Nice example of Bliks in action. Literature is powered by such dramas, where people's individual mindset shifts the spectrum of every photon right or left of the reader, or the other protagonists, and the tragedy is that too few rays of light fall true, through a clear eye.

Ferris I suppose has seceded, too advanced to bother with the various foolish repercussions she knows will ring through the world under her feet from this new data. That's fine, she's too far ahead to go back anyway. (</sardonic>)

I worry that we (denizens of this website) are too confident that OUR vision is so sure. I'm a noob of course and not sure that I feel myself at home but I suggest caution. All those fools who see blue or green... they're sure they're right, too. Hubris is the danger.

Comment author: MoreOn 10 December 2010 02:21:48PM 2 points [-]

If people here are wrong, but you care enough to read, you owe it to them and to yourself to examine their arguments critically.