billswift comments on Rationality Quotes: January 2011 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: billswift 03 January 2011 07:44:47PM *  14 points [-]

When somebody makes a statement you don't understand, don't tell him he's crazy. Ask him what he means.

-- H Beam Piper, Space Viking

Comment author: orthonormal 03 January 2011 07:51:26PM 10 points [-]
Comment author: billswift 03 January 2011 09:41:48PM 4 points [-]

I didn't realize I had used it before. I hadn't done that much commenting; but starting with last set of "Rationality Quotes" I decided to just start working down my Quotes and Aphorisms file; it has been growing for about 14 years now, and I thought I would share some of them.

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 03 January 2011 08:35:52PM 6 points [-]

Now there was a book that was not like what the title would lead you to expect.