BlazeOrangeDeer comments on Rationality Quotes March 2013 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: gwern 02 March 2013 02:22:07AM 11 points [-]

If someone does not believe in fairies, he does not need to teach his children 'There are no fairies'; he can omit to teach them the word 'fairy'.

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Zettel ยง 413; via "Fable of The Born-Blind-People"

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Comment author: BlazeOrangeDeer 04 March 2013 02:26:24AM 6 points [-]

Down voted for unnecessary rot13

Comment author: tgb 04 March 2013 03:44:13PM 5 points [-]

More importantly IMO than it being unnecessary is that there is no indication of what is going to be behind the rot31 so I don't know whether it's safe to rot13 or not. The first sentence would be best left in plain-text.

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