Nominull comments on Rationality Quotes: March 2011 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Nominull 03 March 2011 04:01:46AM *  5 points [-]

The golden goose is a great thing for everybody until down the road you discover you are that guy wringing the bird's neck screaming at it to lay you some more goddamn eggs you honking piece of shit.

-Andrew Hussie

Comment author: Alicorn 03 March 2011 04:49:13AM 4 points [-]

In what sense does this represent or touch on rationality?

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 03 March 2011 06:17:11AM 8 points [-]

More generally, it's an extension of the original moral-- have respect for how things actually work instead of trying to force them to be what you want.

Comment author: Nominull 03 March 2011 05:03:25AM 11 points [-]

Perhaps it will help to know that Andrew Hussie is a webcomic artist, and his webcomic is the golden egg in question?

It's a newcomb-like problem faced by anyone who wants to enjoy anyone else's creative output. People fear creating good things for fear that they will be expected to go on creating them.