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John_Maxwell_IV comments on What epistemic hygiene norms should there be? - Less Wrong Discussion

11 Post author: Kaj_Sotala 21 March 2012 07:26PM

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Comment author: John_Maxwell_IV 28 March 2012 06:16:58AM *  3 points [-]

I try to keep in mind something I remember reading about the eminent mathematician David Hilbert. Supposedly he would constantly and shamelessly ask questions during math presentations, and once even asked what a Hilbert space was.