Hopefully_Anonymous comments on Touching the Old - Less Wrong

11 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 20 July 2008 09:19AM

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Comment author: Hopefully_Anonymous 20 July 2008 10:31:06PM 0 points [-]

Oxford is a little different than the Wailing Wall, it's one of the world's earliest universities, and its been one of the world's great universities for centuries. Eliezer, you would love Florence. In England and in other old countries, I'm most impressed by ancient pubs. One can see how an important church or castle can remain for centuries. But for a little old pub to eek it out for that long, there's something special about that, IMO.