Idea from this post by Eliezer Yudkowsky, from the Sequences which I’m currently flicking through in slightly disorderly fashion.
why?
For myself, the usual curiosity-stopper is not so much “somebody else already knows”, as “somebody else already knows, and it involves hardcore mathematics”…
(See original post for context, click image for larger version.)
UPDATE: Hello to everyone coming here from LW, and welcome to my artblog, wherein I put up things it amused me to draw. Not much in the way of intellectual content, but hope you like it anyway.
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This made me laugh. Thank you.