elharo comments on Rationality Quotes August 2014 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: elharo 10 August 2014 10:28:05AM *  7 points [-]

Probably true. It's not like Hollywood is an accurate source of information about anything. (Climate change, asteroid impacts, the legal system, the military, romance, sex, business, anything.) But I fail to see how this is a rationality quote. I'm sure there are many more quotes of the form "Group X is wrong about Topic Y."

I would prefer to limit quotes to those that that teach us how to tell whether or how much Group X is right or wrong about Topic Y, and skip quotes that merely turn on the applause lights on a particular topic.

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 12 August 2014 03:20:21PM 6 points [-]

The quote isn't just about Hollywood being wrong, it's about a specific way that it's wrong.