Caledonian2 comments on The Magnitude of His Own Folly - Less Wrong

26 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 30 September 2008 11:31AM

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Comment author: Caledonian2 30 September 2008 05:32:35PM 0 points [-]

Nature has rules, and Nature has conditions. Even behaving in perfect harmony with the rules doesn't guarantee you'll like the outcome, because you can never control all of the conditions.

Only theosophists imagine they can make the nature of reality bend to their will.