Rationality Quotes April 2012

Oscar_Cunningham

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Do not quote yourself
Do not quote comments/posts on LW/OB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

I agree, so if you intended this as a counterpoint, it seems to follow that I have inconsistent beliefs. If so, can you expand?

I'm inferring more than you said, which isn't making it easy for anyone to understand me. Sorry about that.

If you think your comment discusses an edge case, and that it's a good general practice to praise/reward effort rather than intelligence, then we are in agreement and this conversation should probably end. If you think it's a good general practice to spend the cognitive effort required to scan the world for situations where each type of praise/reward would most help… then I think we're disagreeing.

Long comment following - summary at bottom.

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