DaFranker comments on Being Half-Rational About Pascal's Wager is Even Worse - Less Wrong

18 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 18 April 2013 05:20AM

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Comment author: DaFranker 19 April 2013 02:11:20PM 1 point [-]

I retain an eight volume dictionary from 1899 to answer this kind of question.

That's some epic skill levels in Arcane Lore right there.

Comment author: gwern 19 April 2013 05:05:13PM *  3 points [-]

Or he could've just downloaded a copy of the OED.

("excited: 1.a Stirred by strong emotion, disturbed, agitated. '1855 Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. 275 "The population of Edinburgh was in an excited state."    1864 Mrs. Carlyle Lett. III. 216 "The excited people‥rushed out to me."    1879 McCarthy Own Times I. 199 "Thiers carried with him much of the excited public feeling of France."'")