wedrifid comments on Rationality Quotes October 2013 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: wedrifid 07 October 2013 06:46:44AM 11 points [-]

You can't call them 'inventors' though, because that's not as high-status as 'poet'.

It isn't? That's... broken.

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 07 October 2013 05:26:25PM 5 points [-]

Yes, that was my attempted point.

Comment author: wedrifid 09 October 2013 08:52:20PM *  1 point [-]

(In that vein my attempted point in reply approximately translates to "I agree with your point that it would be broken if true, am startled to hear that it actually is true but take your word for it".)