katydee comments on Rationality Quotes June 2013 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: katydee 01 June 2013 08:42:20PM 7 points [-]

A little less conversation, a little more action!

Elvis Presley

Comment author: cody-bryce 03 June 2013 05:53:36PM 0 points [-]

One needs the right balance between conversation and action, and overall, it's probably too much of the latter and too little of the former in this world.

Comment author: savageorange 07 June 2013 11:40:40AM 3 points [-]

Or more precisely:

The problem with the world is fools and fanatics are so sure of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts. -- Bertrand Russell

..Most actors don't think enough, and most thinkers don't act enough. cf. Dunning-Kruger effect.

Extroverts and Introverts typically line up with those two categories quite neatly, and in my observation tend to associate mainly with people of similar temperament (allowing them to avoid much of the pressure to be more balanced they'd find in a less homogenous social circle). I believe that this lack of balanced interaction is the real source of the problem. We need balanced pressure to both act and think competently, but the inherent discomfort makes most people unwilling to voluntarily seek it out (if they even become aware that doing so is beneficial).

Comment author: katydee 03 June 2013 06:50:05PM 3 points [-]

I'm not sure I agree in the general case, and I think that among LessWrongers things are certainly unbalanced in the other direction.