Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Professing and Cheering - Less Wrong

39 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 02 August 2007 07:20AM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 02 August 2007 03:41:38PM 2 points [-]

Zenkat: I will happily switch between tales of the Green Mother's handfasting to the Dying King and Gould's theory of Punctuated Equilibrium

They're about equally plausible. You do realize that serious evolutionary biologists regard Gould as a scientifically dishonest crackpot who has deliberately misrepresented the state of modern evolutionary biology to the public?

Gunn: The cow thing does seem a stretch, though, even on the most sympathetic possible interpretation.

It's a good thing you don't believe anything that would sound just as strange to someone who hadn't grown up believing it.