Antadil comments on Rationality Quotes March 2013 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Antadil 02 March 2013 11:18:53PM *  21 points [-]

I remember asking a wise man, once,

'Why do men fear the dark?'

'Because darkness' he told me, 'is ignorance made visible.'

'And do men despise ignorance?', I asked.

'No!', he said, 'they prize it above all things - all things! - but only so long as it remains invisible.'

– R. Scott Bakker: The Judging Eye

Comment author: Neotenic 04 March 2013 03:04:06AM *  0 points [-]

When Lennon remarked that "Ignorance is bliss", should he have said "Unknown unknowns, except for knightian uncertainty, are bliss"?