Rationality Quotes August 2012

Alejandro1

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Do not quote yourself
Do not quote comments/posts on LW/OB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

That is not the reason or even a reason why I'm not having kids at the moment. And since I don't particularly want to discourage other people from having children, I decline to discuss my own reasons publicly (or in the vicinity of anyone else who wants kids).

I was sure I had heard seen you talk about them in public (On BHTV, I believe) some thing like (possible misquote) "Lbh fubhyqa'g envfr puvyqera hayrff lbh pna ohvyq bar sebz fpengpu," which sounded kinda wierd, because it applies to literally every human on earth, and that didn't seem to be where you were going.

6[anonymous]14y

That sounds sufficiently ominous that I'm not quite sure I want kids any more.

7Mitchell_Porter14y

I feel that I should. It's a politically inconvenient stance to take, since all human cultures are based on reproducing themselves; antinatal cultures literally die out. But from a human perspective, this world is deeply flawed. To create a life is to gamble with the outcome of that life. And it seems to be a gratuitous gamble.

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