Nisan comments on Rationality Quotes August 2012 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Incorrect 02 August 2012 11:13:29PM 27 points [-]

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

-- Oscar Wilde

Comment author: Nisan 03 August 2012 04:46:32PM 4 points [-]

It is absurd to divide people into charming or tedious. People either have familiar worldviews or unfamiliar worldviews.

Comment author: DaFranker 03 August 2012 04:51:00PM 6 points [-]

It is absurd to divide people into familiar worldviews or unfamiliar worldviews. People either have closer environmental causality or farther environmental causality.

(anyone care to formalize the recursive tower?)

Comment author: faul_sname 03 August 2012 05:48:34PM *  5 points [-]

It's absurd to divide people into two categories and expect those two categories to be meaningful in more than a few contexts.

Comment author: Stabilizer 03 August 2012 09:05:32PM 20 points [-]

It is absurd to divide people. They tend to die if you do that.

Comment author: Kindly 04 August 2012 12:19:55AM 8 points [-]

It's absurd to divide. You tend to die if you do that.

Comment author: Tyrrell_McAllister 04 August 2012 04:45:07PM 12 points [-]

It's absurd: You tend to die.

Comment author: faul_sname 04 August 2012 07:55:29PM 7 points [-]

It's absurd to die.

Comment author: albeola 04 August 2012 08:43:51PM 5 points [-]

It's bs to die.

Comment author: Epiphany 18 August 2012 05:11:50AM *  4 points [-]

Be.

Comment author: Decius 04 August 2012 09:50:42PM 1 point [-]

Nobody alive has died yet.

Comment author: [deleted] 04 August 2012 12:43:19AM 8 points [-]

“Males” and “females”. (OK, there are edge cases and stuff, but this doesn't mean the categories aren't meaningful, does it?)

Comment author: Clippy 03 August 2012 08:38:37PM 1 point [-]

What about good vs bad humans?

Comment author: faul_sname 04 August 2012 07:52:48PM 1 point [-]

Or humans who create paperclips versus those who don't?

Comment author: Clippy 05 August 2012 12:28:55AM 10 points [-]

I thought I just said that.

Comment author: MatthewBaker 11 August 2012 12:31:44AM 0 points [-]

Can't their be good humans who don't create paperclips and just destroy antipaperclips and staples and such?

Comment author: Clippy 14 August 2012 12:20:47AM 1 point [-]

Destroying antipaperclips is creating paperclips.

I didn't know humans had the concept though.

Comment author: [deleted] 20 August 2012 09:26:02AM 1 point [-]

What is an antipaperclip?