JackV comments on Rationality Quotes December 2013 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: JackV 02 December 2013 11:59:56AM 13 points [-]

http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2013/11/26/welcome-to-the-era-of-big-replication/

When he studied which psychological studies were replicatable, and had to choose whether to disbelieve some he'd previously based a lot of work on, Brian Nosek said:

I choose the red pill. That's what doing science is.

(via ciphergoth on twitter)

Comment author: mwengler 02 December 2013 07:00:41PM 4 points [-]

Which one is the red pill again?

Comment author: Vaniver 02 December 2013 08:12:55PM *  8 points [-]

MORPHEUS: You take the blue pill and the story ends. You wake in your bed and you believe whatever you want to believe.

MORPHEUS: You take the red pill and you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes.

From The Matrix Original Script (the wording is slightly different in the movie).

Comment author: Lethalmud 06 December 2013 03:40:25PM 16 points [-]

As a side note, never take pills from strange people in empty werehouses who found you on the internet.

Comment author: Vaniver 06 December 2013 04:55:38PM 21 points [-]

That depends, how were their reviews on Silk Road? :P

Comment author: simplicio 18 December 2013 11:42:48PM 3 points [-]

Especially not in werehouses, no.

Comment author: advael 18 December 2013 11:45:00PM 10 points [-]

I'm wary of being in werehouses at all. They could turn back to people at any time!

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