Rationality Quotes October 2011

MinibearRex

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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Do not quote yourself.
Do not quote comments/posts on LW/OB.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.

In my opinion, overused words deserve correction.

I'm not sure that I'm getting your point. The theme of your links is that the word "rational" is overused around here. Is it your point that "Aumann agreement" is also overused?

See the zeroth virtue.

Are you referring to the virtue that Eliezer calls "the void"? I'm not seeing the relevance.

Is it your point that "Aumann agreement" is also overused?

Not really, that was poor word choice on my part. Only literally is it overused, in that one excessive use constitutes overuse.

It's that such words have a warm feel to them, so they are used even when the anticipation controlling/more literal/more technical meaning is not intended. The overuse causes confusion by muddying the meaning, and increases the risk that I will name the way to understand the world and achieving my goals instead of actually understanding the world and achieving ... (read more)

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