nshepperd comments on Rationality Quotes: April 2011 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: nshepperd 21 April 2011 01:14:47AM 4 points [-]

Is this an ironic rationality quote?

Comment author: Pavitra 21 April 2011 01:19:58AM 1 point [-]

The world is allowed to be too much for you to handle. (But you should try anyway.)

Comment author: knb 21 April 2011 11:58:09PM *  6 points [-]

That isn't what the quote is saying though. It is claiming that we know for a fact that we cannot ever understand cognition. Ironically, that is itself a hubristic claim of positive knowledge about a topic (what may eventually be possible for humans to know) where we should be more modest about claims.

Comment author: Pavitra 24 April 2011 03:12:40PM 1 point [-]

Agreed.