Rationality Quotes July 2012

RobertLumley

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Do not quote yourself
Do not quote comments/posts on LW/OB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

All mushrooms are edible. But some of them you can eat only once.

Reminds me of advice to people who want to know if they can sue someone: You can always sue. You just can't always expect to win.

9DanielLC14y

Similarly: [...] The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries I don't really see the point of either of these quotes. Edit: Fixed. Thanks.

19RobertLumley14y

It seems like the author is defying the common usage without a reason here. The common usage of edible is "safe to eat", or more precisely "able to be eaten without killing you", and I don't see what use redefining it to mean "able to be swallowed" is. It just seems like a trite, definitional argument that is primarily about status.

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