Rationality Quotes September 2011

dvasya

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Here's the new thread for posting quotes, with the usual 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Do not quote yourself.
Do not quote comments/posts on LW/OB.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.

Huh? But, like, spatial patterns and shit. Okay, I'll find something prestigious or something. Here's a nice short position piece: http://www.necsi.edu/research/evoeco/nature08809_proof1.pdf Bam, Greek symbols and Nature, can't argue with that.

ETA: Here's a lot of fancy words and mathy shit: http://www.necsi.edu/research/multiscale/ . I don't know how to read it but I do know that it agrees with my preconceptions, and whenever my intuition and Greek symbols align I know I'm right. It's like astrology but better.

ETA2: Delicious pretty graphs and more Greek shit: http://www.necsi.edu/research/multiscale/PhysRevE_70_066115.pdf . Nothing to do with evolution but it's so impressive looking that it doesn't matter, right?

After your edits: Do you have a problem with my question? It was clear and straightforward- I wanted to know what was new in the paper you linked. I was not trying to start some kind of status battle with you. I was not signaling anything. You indicated you had reason to believe previous findings on group selection were wrong- I asked you to explain the argument and you responded with what looks like rudeness and sarcasm. I don't know if you were intending to direct that rudeness and sarcasm at me or if you're just on a 48 hour Adderall binge. Either way, I suggest you take a nap.

6Richard_Kennaway15y

Whatever you're trying to say, you aren't helping it by your presentation. I mean: [...] Ordinarily that would be a rhetorical way of saying that you can and do argue with it (as do the authors of the paper that that was a response to), but you seem to be citing it in support of your previous comment. So, what is your actual point?

4Jack15y

No need to dig up more sources- I just don't know what the "spatial patterns and shit" means.