RichardKennaway comments on Rationality quotes: June 2010 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: RichardKennaway 01 June 2010 07:55:00PM 2 points [-]

Sometimes exhausted from toil and endeavour

I wish I could sleep for ever and ever

But then this assertion my thinking allays

I shall be doing that one of these days.

-- Piet Hein

Comment author: simplicio 02 June 2010 04:31:47AM *  6 points [-]

I love Piet Hein :)

For many system shoppers it's

a good-for-nothing system

that classifies as opposites

stupidity and wisdom.

Because by logic-choppers it's

accepted with avidity:

stupidity's true opposite's

the opposite stupidity.

or

Wisdom is

the booby prize

given when you've been

unwise.

Comment author: Mardonius 01 June 2010 11:01:36PM 8 points [-]

speak for yourself Sir, I intend to live forever

-Jonathan Frakes, as William T Riker

Comment author: RichardKennaway 02 June 2010 06:36:36AM *  3 points [-]

A fine intention. But until we make the technology, we are still, after all, only mortal.

"Had we but world enough and time

But we don't

So let's get on with it."

-- Andrew Marvell, "To His Coy Mistress" (abridged)

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 02 June 2010 10:17:13AM 4 points [-]

Your original quote asserts a definite fate, not a fate which would occur if some particular technology were to remain uninvented.

That is not dead which can eternal lie
And with strange aeons even death may die

-- H. P. Lovecraft

Comment author: RichardKennaway 02 June 2010 10:22:07AM *  3 points [-]

Piet Hein is definitely dead.

Comment author: gwern 02 June 2010 05:59:49PM 2 points [-]

"Everybody has got to die, but I always believed an exception would be made in my case."

--author William Saroyan, letter written to his survivors

Comment author: cousin_it 02 June 2010 10:20:39AM *  1 point [-]

Holy shit, this the first time ever that I realized the relationship between this Lovecraft quote and classic OB/LW topics. Scary.

Comment author: dclayh 02 June 2010 08:05:42PM 1 point [-]

You mean you missed it back in February? :)

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