Caledonian2 comments on Faster Than Science - Less Wrong

14 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 20 May 2008 12:19AM

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Comment author: Caledonian2 21 May 2008 02:02:39PM 1 point [-]

One of the preconditions of becoming Great Explorers is that you have to explore, poke. If you are the first to discover the eastern coast, but never venture beyond that, you'll never find the northern, southern, or western.

If the researchers were not minimally rational, they would never have turned the wheels on Newtonian physics long enough to discover SR.