Jiro comments on Against Maturity - Less Wrong

28 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 18 February 2009 11:34PM

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Comment author: Capla 22 October 2014 04:30:02PM 1 point [-]

Why should I pretend to be mature when practically every star in the night sky is older than I am?

Practically? Or am I missing the reference?

Comment author: Jiro 22 October 2014 04:37:00PM 1 point [-]

As I've pointed out before, people on the Internet are depressingly literal, so any argument needs to be full of useless qualifiers to prevent it from getting pounced on by people who don't understand context. If he didn't say that, some idiot probably would have asked him how he didn't know that some object in the sky was 49.9999% to stardom last year and 50.0001% to stardom this year.