IlyaShpitser comments on Rationality Quotes December 2014 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: IlyaShpitser 05 January 2015 09:16:51AM * 1 point [-]

I am not a major fan of using poetic language to describe real life. Really. Just don't like it.

Fair enough. Why insist others share this preference? I like poetry (T. S. Eliot for example).

A ton of math is about metaphors (Lakoff wrote a book about this).