Rationality Quotes December 2013

Cyan

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Rationality quotes time!

The usual rules:

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Do not quote yourself.
Do not quote from Less Wrong itself, HPMoR, Eliezer Yudkowsky, or Robin Hanson.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

“Progressive” as in ‘gradual’ or as in ‘left-wing’?

If the former, how is that a danger? I mean, the same is true about general relativity or quantum field theory.

He means gradual. If you look to long at random distribution and listen to people who are in the narration business to frame the random distribution you will start seeing patterns that don't exist.

3Luke_A_Somers12y

No, those things do in fact make sense. They simply aren't intuitive.

10Manfred12y

I will attempt to fix the quote: [...]