Rationality Quotes January 2013

katydee

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Happy New Year! Here's the latest and greatest installment of rationality quotes. Remember:

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Do not quote yourself
Do not quote comments/posts on LessWrong or Overcoming Bias
No more than 5 quotes per person per monthly thread, please

This works equally well as an argument against utilitarianism, which I'm guessing may be your intent.

Nah, it's just a cheap shot at the theists.

EDIT: not sure about the source, but the way it's edited ...

4Qiaochu_Yuan13y

I have no idea what people mean when they say they are against utilitarianism. My current interpretation is that they don't think people should be VNM-rational, and I haven't seen a cogent argument supporting this. Why isn't this quote just establishing that the utility of babies is high?

2TsviBT13y

Huh? How so?

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