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saturn comments on Overcoming the Curse of Knowledge - Less Wrong Discussion

42 Post author: JesseGalef 18 October 2011 05:39PM

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Comment author: saturn 18 October 2011 11:52:19PM 5 points [-]
Comment author: Normal_Anomaly 19 October 2011 12:12:24AM *  3 points [-]

<lame excuse> Those aren't pictures, they're diagrams! </excuse>

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Comment author: Kaj_Sotala 20 October 2011 09:26:31PM *  5 points [-]

We need our diagrams of alien invaders in order to recognize the aliens when they appear among us. Of the dangerous mutants, too.

Comment author: [deleted] 19 October 2011 06:39:30AM *  5 points [-]

They where there a few I admit. But they where shameful and modest. And we didn't talk about them. Look at how wonderfully sloppy those graphs where! These modern things are so prideful and vain.