Another month has passed and here is a new rationality quotes thread. The usual rules are:
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Do not quote yourself.
Do not quote from Less Wrong itself, HPMoR, Eliezer Yudkowsky, or Robin Hanson.
No more than 5 quotes per person per monthly thread, please.
It's a quote against which one can test their rationality, maybe?
When someone died or when it was made has no relevance; only its merit in guiding a government is relevant.
Their moral and political views don't matter either, unless contained in the present US Constitution; this seems like argumentum ad hominem at first glance, but one needs to check the claim before evaluating its persuasiveness.
One must argue that knowledge of modern America confers enough of a benefit to forming a working governmental body that scrapping and rewriting the entire
Another month has passed and here is a new rationality quotes thread. The usual rules are: