Zubon comments on Rationality Quotes April 2013 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: D_Malik 04 April 2013 07:23:23AM *  37 points [-]

There once was a hare who mocked a passing tortoise for being slow. The erudite tortoise responded by challenging the hare to a race.

Built for speed, and with his pride on the line, the hare easily won - I mean, it wasn't even close - and resumed his mocking anew.

Winston Rowntree, Non-Bullshit Fables

Comment author: Zubon 08 April 2013 03:13:52AM 5 points [-]

"Moral: life is inarguably a depressingly unfair endeavor."

Comment author: orthonormal 10 April 2013 07:26:09PM 1 point [-]

FTFY:

"Moral: life is inarguably a depressingly fair endeavor."

Comment author: [deleted] 08 April 2013 06:12:05PM *  1 point [-]

What's unfair about that quote? The faster one did win. This would exemplify your moral.

Comment author: xv15 09 April 2013 05:55:24AM 2 points [-]

"Fairness" depends entirely on what you condition on. Conditional on the hare being better at racing, you could say it's fair that the hare wins. But why does the hare get to be better at racing in the first place?

Debates about what is and isn't fair are best framed as debates over what to condition on, because that's where most of the disagreement lies. (As is the case here, I suppose).

Comment author: Zubon 19 April 2013 02:04:21AM 0 points [-]

The quote is the next line from the quote source.

Comment author: [deleted] 19 April 2013 12:31:21PM 0 points [-]

Huh, okay.

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