Gunnar_Zarncke comments on Rationality Quotes November 2014 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Nominull 23 November 2014 09:22:04AM 1 point [-]

Yeah, I feel like in real world situations, hypothesizing time travel when things don't make sense is not likely to be epistemically successful.

Wasn't there a proverb about generalizing from fictional evidence? Especially from fiction that intentionally doesn't make sense?

Comment author: Gunnar_Zarncke 29 November 2014 10:44:45PM 1 point [-]