Konkvistador comments on Rationality Quotes September 2011 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: [deleted] 13 September 2011 10:21:34PM * 11 points [-]

Ars longa, vita brevis, occasio praeceps, experimentum periculosum, iudicium difficile.

-Hippocrates

Comment author: [deleted] 13 September 2011 10:27:34PM * 15 points [-]

[The] art is long,
life is short,
opportunity fleeting,
experiment dangerous,
judgment difficult.

Considering the beast that some hope to kill by sharpening people's mind-sticks on LW, this sounds applicable wouldn't you agree?

Comment author: Nisan 17 September 2011 06:49:37AM 2 points [-]

Upvote for "mind-sticks".