Nick_Tarleton comments on Failure By Analogy - Less Wrong

15 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 18 November 2008 02:54AM

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Comment author: Nick_Tarleton 18 November 2008 03:36:23PM 2 points [-]

Maybe the beak was critical for stability...

I wonder if the reasoning involved was even that sophisticated, or if it was something closer to cargo-cultism in the root sense: a not-really-conscious attempt to trick the air spirits into granting your creation flight, just as they grant it to birds.