Rationality Quotes February 2012

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Do not quote yourself.
Do not quote comments/posts on LW/OB.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

That democracy can reliably be used as an applause light is a sign that we as a society agree it is indeed a good thing.

Even if society-at-large agrees something is good, the LW community may disagree in whole or in part.

Other things society-at-large treats as good and applause lights include:

Belief in belief
Deathism
Tabooing tradeoffs of sacred values like human life

3wedrifid14y

Or, if I model human behavior correctly, it could also have been as sign that we as a society at one point agreed that it is a good thing but now agree that we agree that it is a reliable applause light. (But I don't think democracy-approval has devolved to that level yet. We actually do seem to think it is a good idea.)

4Richard_Kennaway14y

But not a sign that it is indeed a good thing.

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