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Do not quote yourself
Do not quote comments/posts on LessWrong or Overcoming Bias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

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?

I have no idea what people mean when they say they are against utilitarianism.

I find these criticisms by Vladimir_M to be really superb.

2CarlShulman14y

A bounded utility function that places a lot of value on signaling/being "a good person" and desirable associate, getting some "warm glow" and "mostly doing the (deontologically) right thing" seems like a pretty good approximation.

0Eugine_Nier14y

Well, Alicorn is a deontologist. In any case, as an ultafinitist you should know the problems with the VNM theorem.

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