VoiceOfRa comments on Is Scott Alexander bad at math? - LessWrong

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Comment author: Lumifer 04 May 2015 08:33:19PM 3 points [-]

GEB is... well, it's GEB. I find it quite dated and think that it skates by on having fun with patterns rather than explaining observed phenomena.

It's not a modeling handbook. It just fucks with your mind. Most people's minds are much too unfucked-with.

Comment author: VoiceOfRa 10 May 2015 06:15:49AM * 0 points [-]

Perhaps, but that doesn't mean randomly fucking with them will improve them.

Comment author: gjm 10 May 2015 09:40:32AM 4 points [-]

That's OK: GEB fucks with minds nonrandomly.