SilasBarta comments on Rationality Quotes May 2013 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: SilasBarta 01 May 2013 05:17:41PM * 15 points [-]

I was pleasantly surprised to see this elegant phrasing of a (Machian?) rationalist principle in popular culture:

"There's an axiom in my business [i.e. law]: 'A difference that makes no difference is no difference.'"

-- Joe Adama in the TV series Caprica

Comment author: mcallisterjp 02 May 2013 09:56:24AM 7 points [-]

This is at least as old as Leibnitz.