Comment by yoj1mbo on Rationality Quotes: November 2010 · 2010-11-07T01:34:40.787Z · LW · GW

You are mistaking the map for the territory. It doesn't matter if its a quark-pair or a hyper colossal cosmic structure gravitationally influencing everything in the universe; if a condition is present, then it has effect.

Comment by yoj1mbo on Rationality Quotes: November 2010 · 2010-11-04T21:36:31.937Z · LW · GW

"However insistently the blind may deny the existence of the sun, they cannot annihilate it. " - D. T. Suzuki