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rocurley comments on Beyond the Reach of God, Abridged for Spoken Word - Less Wrong Discussion

10 Post author: Raemon 06 December 2011 06:49PM

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Comment author: rocurley 06 December 2011 10:10:26PM 7 points [-]

Young children really expect to see a dragon in their garage.

I'm not sure this will work well when being read aloud, and if you haven't already read the dragon post.

Comment author: dlthomas 06 December 2011 10:35:47PM *  7 points [-]

"The beliefs of young children actually shape their expectations. If a child believes there is a dragon in their garage, they really expect to see one there."

Comment author: Raemon 06 December 2011 10:39:02PM *  0 points [-]

For the intended audience, most people should be familiar with that. (There are going to be dramatically more obscure references over the course of the night). But for generally audiences, yeah.

Comment author: fubarobfusco 06 December 2011 10:54:35PM 0 points [-]

Or the Carl Sagan work it's a reference to, presumably.