Rationality Quotes February 2014

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Do not quote yourself.
Do not quote from Less Wrong itself, HPMoR, Eliezer Yudkowsky, or Robin Hanson.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

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Do not quote yourself.
Do not quote from Less Wrong itself, HPMoR, Eliezer Yudkowsky, or Robin Hanson.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

I prefer the way Gary Drescher phrases it in Good and Real: he redefines “exist” as a deictic so that only this universe “exists”, but also says there's nothing that makes the existing universe special among all mathematically possible universe other than the fact that we're in it.

there's nothing that makes the existing universe special among all mathematically possible universe other than the fact that we're in it.

N.B. This assertion seems pretty falsifiable. If the laws of physics turn out to be particularly simple then we'll be forced to conclude that the universe is special.

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