army1987 comments on Rationality Quotes April 2013 - Less Wrong

6 Post author: Vaniver 08 April 2013 02:00AM

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

"Moral: life is inarguably a depressingly unfair 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.