Rationality Quotes May 2013

katydee

Here's another installment of rationality quotes. The usual rules apply:

Please post all quotes separately, so that they can be upvoted or downvoted 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Do not quote yourself.
Do not quote from Less Wrong itself, Overcoming Bias, or HPMoR.
No more than 5 quotes per person per monthly thread, please.

Here's another installment of rationality quotes. The usual rules apply:

Please post all quotes separately, so that they can be upvoted or downvoted 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Do not quote yourself.
Do not quote from Less Wrong itself, Overcoming Bias, or HPMoR.
No more than 5 quotes per person per monthly thread, please.

I was originally confused when I read this quote, assuming that "should" was being used in the sense of "morally just". It makes a lot more sense with "should" meaning "according to my model of reality". I assume the latter is the intended meaning.

I was originally confused when I read this quote, assuming that "should" was being used in the sense of "morally just". It makes a lot more sense with "should" meaning "according to my model of reality"

A little of both. Her point is that human brains have a tendency to confuse "is" and "ought", mixing the moral or preferential with the actual, thereby clouding the issue.

If you don't want it to be raining, then feeling or protesting that it shouldn't be happening is an error. But it's an error... (read more)

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