Kindly comments on Rationality Quotes July 2013 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Kindly 23 July 2013 03:21:24PM 7 points [-]

Do we observe this explosion-of-recorded-evidence phenomenon with real but weird things (e.g. some rare, bizarre-looking bug)?

Comment author: TimS 23 July 2013 03:31:03PM 5 points [-]

Excellent question - I don't know the answer. This link is suggestive, and the last picture includes a species discovered via upload to flicker.

In general, Googling "newly discovered species" suggests that many new species are found in relatively exotic locations. Bigfoot is supposed to live in the forests of the NW United States. I don't consider that location exotic because those forests are heavily populated and very accessible to people (compared to the bottom of the ocean or deep jungle of Brazil or Africa).