Rationality Quotes: June 2011

Oscar_Cunningham

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Y'all know the rules:

Please post all quotes separately, so that they can be voted up/down separately. (If they are strongly related, reply to your own comments. If strongly ordered, then go ahead and post them together.)
Do not quote yourself.
Do not quote comments/posts on LW/OB.
No more than 5 quotes per person per monthly thread, please.

I have read some mainstream philosophy. I have read much of Anarchy, State, and Utopia, and nothing else by Nozick.

My view of LW is that the aspects of philosophy that I am interested in, that I have not already learned enough about from LW or other sources to satisfy me, are areas where LW pretty clearly beats mainstream philosophy.

No one proved consequentialism, and yet consequentialism is right. Who proved Occam's Razor?

I have read some mainstream philosophy. I have read much of Anarchy, State, and Utopia, and nothing else by Nozick.

Anarchy, State, and Utopia is the least relevant of Nozick's books to LessWrongers. Try The Nature of Rationality (here is a decent summary of the content) and Invariances instead.

My view of LW is that the aspects of philosophy that I am interested in, that I have not already learned enough about from LW or other sources to satisfy me, are areas where LW pretty clearly beats mainstream philosophy.

I'm not really sure what your saying her... (read more)

-1Peterdjones15y

I have read a lot of mainstream philosophy and I find LW is flawed in some areas, and I can say why. Why should I believe what you say about consequentualism absent proof? What if I say that phyiscalism and reductionism are just plumb wrong. Would you believe me?