Rationality Quotes September 2012

Jayson_Virissimo

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Do not quote yourself
Do not quote comments/posts on LW/OB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

"Wait, Professor... If Sisyphus had to roll the boulder up the hill over and over forever, why didn't he just program robots to roll it for him, and then spend all his time wallowing in hedonism?"
"It's a metaphor for the human struggle."
"I don't see how that changes my point."

SMBC Comics #2719

I'd say this captures the spirit of Less Wrong perfectly.

21taelor14y

Answer: Because the Greek gods are vindictive as fuck, and will fuck you over twice as hard when they find out that you wriggled out of it the first time.

39Eugine_Nier14y

Well, his point only makes any sense when applied to the metaphor since a better answer to the question [...] is: "where would Sisyphus get a robot in the middle of Hades?" Edit: come to think of it, this also works with the metaphor for human struggle.