Rationality quotes January 2012

Thomas

Here's the new thread for posting quotes, with the usual rules:

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Do not quote yourself.
Do not quote comments/posts on LW/OB.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

Trust in me, just in me. Dude people are still doing karmassassination! Even without voting buttons on profile pages. Crazy.

Why do you say that? That doesn't sound true. Humans are monkeys - I should be surprised if a group of monkeys acts perfectly rational.

Assuming infinite cognitive resources or something? What's your standard?

Apparently they stopped after downvoting about 30 comments. Maybe it was too much work.

2wedrifid14y

No? You don't even try to be trustworthy here!

1wedrifid14y

Does it matter? If the standard chosen is such that humans behave perfectly rationally according to it then they are completely free of bias and 'rational' has taken on a bizarre redefinition to equal to whatever humans are already achieving. The time to be particular about whether rational means 'optimal use of cognitive resources' or 'assuming infinite cognitive resources' is when the behavior in question is anywhere remotely near either.

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