Rationality quotes January 2012

Thomas

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Do not quote yourself.
Do not quote comments/posts on LW/OB.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

the majority of the time finding "answers" is foolishness

Agreed,

,whereas continuing to search for an answer is wise

Yeah, no. :P If there isn't an answer, and you understand why there isn't an answer, don't keep searching for an answer.

Yeah, no. :P If there isn't an answer, and you understand why there isn't an answer, don't keep searching for an answer.

As dlthomas pointed out, you seem to have replied to some stupid comment that is vaguely similar to mine except doesn't actually exist. Are you trolling? Or are you just kinda meh about this whole 'actually reading what the other person says' thing? I know I am sometimes.

0dlthomas14y

I think that's what the parent said. Edited to add: Or that's not quite right - it's that you're speaking of a world the parent explicitly denied. The sentence before what you quoted was [...] Saying that what follows is wrong in the opposite case is immaterial.

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