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49 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 02 May 2007 06:36AM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 03 May 2007 01:40:30AM 20 points [-]

Well, the main lesson I learned today is:

Never use quantum mechanics as an example of anything.

I could have talked about relativity, the counterintuitive mixing of space and time, and non-flat spacetime metrics, but noooo, I had to say "quantum".

Comment author: [deleted] 05 June 2012 05:13:34PM 3 points [-]

But if you hadn't used that example I would have never read this Wikipedia edit summary, and never heard about you or LessWrong!