Rationality Quotes July 2012

RobertLumley

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Do not quote yourself
Do not quote comments/posts on LW/OB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

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Do not quote yourself
Do not quote comments/posts on LW/OB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

If our society seems more nihilistic than that of previous eras, perhaps this is simply a sign of our maturity as a sentient species. As our collective consciousness expands beyond a crucial point, we are at last ready to accept life's fundamental truth: that life's only purpose is life itself.

– Chairman Sheng-Ji Yang in Alpha Centauri

Because for certain concepts, this is an lesswrong is an echo chamber. Unfortunately, the idea that lesswrong is NOT an echo chamber is another one of those concepts So I will retract this comment.

-1[anonymous]14y

Don't quite see why this is so down voted.

2DanArmak14y

I don't understand the quote. Under what definition of "nihilistic" does it make sense? Wikipedia says: [...] Often true and valid. Agrees with the quote in that life has no purpose beyond itself - e.g. no supernatural gods. [...] Doesn't follow, and is false in any case. Unless one argues that all existing or even possible things are senseless and useless. Which would render these two words quite senseless and useless, in my view. What is meant by 'nihilism' anyway?

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