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Will_Newsome comments on Open Thread, March 1-15, 2012 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Will_Newsome 07 March 2012 11:20:57PM 1 point [-]

Hm, it would seem to be neither; it's like, 'we can't actually think about these (far) things in near mode, so we'll use a mathematical approximation of near mode and see what that tells us'.