Nominull comments on The Benefits of Rationality? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Nominull 31 March 2009 02:44:05PM 6 points [-]

I'm not like Eliezer, I don't seek to be right because I have some beautiful vision of the future I have to actualize. I'm not as smart as him, and I lack his willpower. I only seek to be right because I hate being wrong. Which means that for my purposes drugs are unproductive and religion is counterproductive.

Comment author: Annoyance 31 March 2009 03:54:00PM 2 points [-]

"I only seek to be right because I hate being wrong."

The Masters aren't sick, because they got sick of being sick. - One Translation of the Tao Te Ching