SilasBarta comments on Rationality quotes: March 2010 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: SilasBarta 04 March 2010 03:34:28PM 7 points [-]

The world is sufficiently mad that your being sane is actually a disadvantage, except where this contradicts the first two laws.

Or as I would put it, "In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is institutionalized."

Comment author: CronoDAS 20 March 2010 03:10:59AM 4 points [-]

"In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is institutionalized."

H.G. Wells actually wrote a story based on that premise. Read it here!