army1987 comments on Moloch: optimisation, "and" vs "or", information, and sacrificial ems - Less Wrong

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Comment author: [deleted] 08 August 2014 10:03:47AM 2 points [-]

(I suspect certain Greeks believed in them literally and other Greeks believed in them as metaphors but they never realized they disagreed for reasons akin to these.)

Comment author: Azathoth123 09 August 2014 04:03:19AM 7 points [-]

They did in fact have open disagreements. Most famously, Socrates was executed over one.