Rationality Quotes August 2013

Vaniver

Another month has passed and here is a new rationality quotes thread. The usual rules are:

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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Do not quote yourself.
Do not quote from Less Wrong itself, HPMoR, Eliezer Yudkowsky, or Robin Hanson.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.

Sure. But by definition they are irrational kludges made by human brains.

Bayesian updating is a theorem of probability: it is literally the formal definition of "rationally changing your mind." If you're changing your mind through something that isn't Bayesian, you will get the right answer iff your method gives the same result as the Bayesian one; otherwise you're just wrong.

But by definition they are irrational kludges made by human brains.

The original point was that human brains are not all Bayesian agents. (Specifically, that they could be completely certain of something)

-2Lumifer13y

Yes. [...] No, unless you define "rationally changing your mind" this way in which case it's just a circle. [...] Nope. The ultimate criterion of whether the answer is the right one is real life.

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