Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Rationality Quotes - June 2009 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: smoofra 15 June 2009 03:49:24PM *  8 points [-]

"I don't, I've come to believe, have to agree with you to like you, or respect you."

--Anthony Bourdain.

Never forget that your opponents are not evil mutants. They are the heroes of their own stories, and if you can't fathom why they do what they do, or why they believe what they believe, that's your failing not theirs.

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 16 June 2009 01:54:11AM 1 point [-]

Last paragraph is an OBLW quote, no? Those don't go here...

Comment author: smoofra 16 June 2009 03:17:24AM *  1 point [-]

I don't think it's an exact quote of anything on OB or LW. If it is then my subconscious has a much better memory than I do. I was just attempting to relate the Bourdain quote to OBLW terminology.