A monthly thread for posting rationality-related quotes you've seen recently (or had stored in your quotesfile for ages).
- Please post all quotes separately, so that they can be voted up/down separately. (If they are strongly related, reply to your own comments. If strongly ordered, then go ahead and post them together.)
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- No more than 5 quotes per person per monthly thread, please.
I don't understand why this is a rationality quote. Am I missing some context? (I've never read any Charlie Brown books).
I believe this is from a tv special; I'm having trouble determining the relevance as well.
One possibility: the extended description of the story, rather than a simple statement of fact or belief, constitutes a warning about the power of contextual imagery in activating availability heuristics.