Rationality Quotes March 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Do not quote yourself
Do not quote comments/posts on LW/OB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 important thing, I take it, is to decide the level of our contribution on your own, without doing any detailed gathering of data or modeling. -- LeoChopper, at sluggy.net, summarizing an argument against AGW.

(Okay, I understand it sitting at 0. Downvoted for what? Putting modeling on the same footing as detailed gathering of data?)

I'm not the one who downvoted it, but I'm about to add another, because the quote makes little to no sense without context. Who is "our" and "your"? Does "contribution" refer to CO2 emissions, or to poltiical activism, or to planning work, or to research?

People also tend to downvote pro- and anti-AGW arguments here as "mindkilling", but this one hasn't even reached that point yet. From just the quoted text I can't even be certain whether this is an anti-AGW statement (climate modelling is insufficiently detailed a... (read more)

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