Rationality Quotes November 2013

MalcolmOcean

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Do not quote yourself.
Do not quote from Less Wrong itself, HPMoR, Eliezer Yudkowsky, or Robin Hanson.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Do not quote yourself.
Do not quote from Less Wrong itself, HPMoR, Eliezer Yudkowsky, or Robin Hanson.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

Anyway, Google doesn't turn any reference to Parfit's Hitchhiker independent of LessWrong. Has this dilemma really originated from Parfit or did EY make it up?

Google points to this as the original reference. It's paywalled, so I cannot check.

The paper also apparently mentions Kavka's toxin puzzle, an interesting exercise in rationality and precommitment occasionally discussed on LW.

Google points to this as the original reference. It's paywalled, so I cannot check.

Thanks. I've also found this one, which is not paywalled.

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