satt comments on Rationality Quotes July 2013 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: satt 24 July 2013 02:53:03AM 0 points [-]

On the other hand, if I'm empathic, if I'm in a happy mood and get outside of my head I'm more likely to have success in making woman enjoy dancing with me.

And there's your measurement! (But then the school I graduated from taught quantum mechanics instead of Taylorism, so I may have an unusually expansive idea of what constitutes a measurement.)

Comment author: ChristianKl 24 July 2013 03:59:18PM 1 point [-]

Even in quantum mechanics people do have numbers as a result of their measurements.

It's not about trusting your intuition and relying on something like empathy.