Rationality Quotes August 2013

Vaniver

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Do not quote yourself.
Do not quote from Less Wrong itself, HPMoR, Eliezer Yudkowsky, or Robin Hanson. If you'd like to revive an old quote from one of those sources, please do so here.
No more than 5 quotes per person per monthly thread, please.

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Do not quote yourself.
Do not quote from Less Wrong itself, HPMoR, Eliezer Yudkowsky, or Robin Hanson. If you'd like to revive an old quote from one of those sources, please do so here.
No more than 5 quotes per person per monthly thread, please.

Can you not empathise in even a small part with the aesthetic aversion many people have to contaminating things with used currency?

Are you sure you didn't just go ahead and basically make up these people who don't want money to touch their book because it's dirty?

I've known at least a couple people who found it yucky to handle cash right before a meal for that same reason.

0wedrifid13y

No. I've seen such people. When I look at the mirror, for example. Notice that the standard was explicitly set to: [...] The observation that this kind of absurd claim is positively received and even supported by similarly ridiculous petty sniping is disheartening.

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