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MathiasZaman comments on Wisdom for Smart Teens - my talk at SPARC 2014 - Less Wrong Discussion

15 Post author: Liron 09 February 2015 06:58PM

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Comment author: MathiasZaman 10 February 2015 12:43:40PM 4 points [-]

The part about God was high impact, so it might have been worth it. Especially since you moved on rather quickly to less controversial examples. I don't think your explanation on bread would have the same impact without dropping god in there. I'm not a public speaker, so I might be very wrong here, but maybe it's a trade-off.