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OphilaDros comments on Irrationality Game II - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Khoth 04 July 2012 03:10:33PM 7 points [-]

Why pick out those events?

It's easy to see it as a coincidence when you take into account all the events that you might have counted as significant if they'd happened at the right time. How about the discovery of general relativity, the cosmic microwave background, neutrinos, the Sputnik launch, various supernovae, the Tunguska impact, etc etc?

Comment author: OphilaDros 04 July 2012 04:20:57PM 2 points [-]

Also all those dramatic technological developments of 6000 years ago, which seem minor now due to the passage of time and further advances in knowledge and technology. As no doubt the discovery of the Higgs Boson or the Voyager leaving the boundary of the solar system would seem in 8012. AD. If anybody even remembers these events then.