VoiceOfRa comments on Rationality Quotes Thread May 2015 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: VoiceOfRa 04 May 2015 12:07:45AM 6 points [-]

Something Nyan Sandwich should have been clear on is that he means "physics envy" in the sense of using the same epistemology physicists use. Unfortunately, in reality physics envy is more likely to manifest as the social scientists noticing that physicists use complicated mathematics and trying to use complicated mathematics themselves.