hairyfigment comments on Rationality Quotes Thread September 2015 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: hairyfigment 12 October 2015 02:25:52AM 5 points [-]

Do you actually think they just failed to come up with QM or thermodynamics because they didn't think about God enough?

A few seconds' googling suggests (article here) that a monk by the name of Udo of Aachen figured out the Mandelbrot set some seven hundred years before Mandelbrot did by, essentially, thinking about God.

Took me a while to check this, because of course it would have been evidence for my point. (By the way, throughout this conversation, you've shown little awareness of the concept or the use of evidence in Bayesian thought.)

Are you trolling us?

Comment author: CCC 12 October 2015 10:58:33AM 3 points [-]

...no, I am not intentionally trolling you. Thank you for finding that.

This is the danger of spending only a few seconds googling on a topic; on occasion, one finds oneself being fooled by a hoax page.