gothgirl420666 comments on Fermi Estimates - Less Wrong

51 Post author: lukeprog 11 April 2013 05:52PM

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Comment author: Qiaochu_Yuan 09 April 2013 05:17:00AM 2 points [-]

I thought rationalists just sort of listened only to Great Works like Bach or Mozart

Why?

Comment author: gothgirl420666 09 April 2013 02:10:59PM 1 point [-]

Well, Eliezer mentions Bach a bunch in the sequences as an example of a great work of art. I used stereotypes to extrapolate. :p

(the statement was tongue-in-cheek, if that didn't come across. I am genuinely a little surprised to see MBV mentioned here though.)