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Do not quote yourself
Do not quote comments/posts on LW/OB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

Nope, I'm a native French speaker and my reaction to Baudrillard is "WTF?" and building a Markov Baudrillard quote generator to see if I can tell the difference.

Jargon is good. Vaguely defined jargon isn't bad - sometimes all you can do is say "sweet refers to the taste of sugar, if you don't know what that is I can't help you".

But structure shouldn't be completely unclear. Baudrillard has a lot of "X is Y" statements and very few "therefore"s. I can't tell what is a conclusion, what is an argument, what is a definition, or even whether there are anything but conclusions.

I've found some Baudrillard texts that clearly mean things, but they're not very good.

Can you specify more about what parts of the quote are confusing?