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loup-vaillant comments on You only need faith in two things - Less Wrong Discussion

22 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 10 March 2013 11:45PM

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Comment author: loup-vaillant 14 March 2013 08:50:33AM *  0 points [-]

Nevertheless, the lack of exposure to such attractors is quite relevant: if there was any, you'd expect some scientist to encounter it.

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 15 March 2013 01:10:04AM 1 point [-]

Why would one expect scientists to have encountered such attractors before even if they exist? As far as I know there hasn't been much effort to systematically search for them, and even if there has been some effort in that direction, Eliezer didn't site any.