TobyBartels comments on Rationality Quotes May 2014 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: TobyBartels 12 May 2014 04:04:37AM 2 points [-]

It's applied math, not the pure math that the OP was talking about. Furthermore, these can be useful ideas even when used purely qualitatively; then it's not even applied math (except in a sense that everything is math, if we make the math sufficiently imprecise).