RobertLumley comments on Rationality Quotes October 2011 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: RobertLumley 22 October 2011 04:37:11PM 0 points [-]

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.

Comment author: roland 23 October 2011 05:05:09PM 0 points [-]
Comment author: RobertLumley 23 October 2011 06:29:52PM 0 points [-]

Yeah, I noticed that after I posted mine.