RobertLumley comments on Rationality Quotes October 2011 - Less Wrong
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I dislike that quote. It used to be in my quotesfile, but I removed it sometime recently. It starts out on a bad premise, namely, that the reasonable man adapts himself to the world. There's no justification for that, and if you reverse "reasonable" and "unreasonable" the quote is pointless.
See my comment here:
http://lesswrong.com/lw/7wm/rationality_quotes_october_2011/52wq
Yeah, I noticed that after I posted mine.