Rationality quotes: March 2010

Morendil

This is our monthly thread for collecting these little gems and pearls of wisdom, rationality-related quotes you've seen recently, or had stored in your quotesfile for ages, and which might be handy to link to in one of our discussions.

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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.)
Do not quote yourself.
Do not quote comments/posts on LW/OB.
No more than 5 quotes per person per monthly thread, please.

I highly recommend anyone interested in hard sci-fi to read Blindsight.

I've read it, and while I liked it and it gave me some things to thing about...

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8AngryParsley16y

Ditto. On the Mohs scale of sci-fi hardness, Blindsight is aggregated diamond nanorod.