"Alas, for those who turn their eyes from dragons and dream of zebras! If we cannot take joy in the merely fantasy, our lives shall be empty indeed." - Eliezer S. Yudkowsky, in a parallel universe.
I never expected a post from Overcoming Bias as informal as a picture with commentary from flickr.com. (But I suppose that's a fact about my own state of poor calibration).
Laughing out loud right now.
This image recently showed up on Flickr (original is nicer):
With the caption:
"Awww!", I said, and called over my girlfriend over to look.
"Awww!", she said, and then looked at me, and said, "I think you need to take your own advice!"
Me: "But I'm looking at the zebra!"
Her: "On a computer!"
Me: (Turns away, hides face.)
Her: "Have you ever even seen a zebra in real life?"
Me: "Yes! Yes, I have! My parents took me to Lincoln Park Zoo! ...man, I hated that place."
Part of the Joy in the Merely Real subsequence of Reductionism
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