Lumifer comments on Rationality Quotes November 2014 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: VAuroch 11 November 2014 07:02:18AM *  31 points [-]

“There is no point in using the word 'impossible' to describe something that has clearly happened.”

-- Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, Douglas Adams

Comment author: Lumifer 11 November 2014 05:56:47PM *  15 points [-]

[Vizzini has just cut the rope The Dread Pirate Roberts is climbing up]
Vizzini: HE DIDN'T FALL? INCONCEIVABLE.
Inigo Montoya: You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

Comment author: VAuroch 12 November 2014 08:03:26AM *  12 points [-]

I always feel a bit bad for Vizzini. His plan is very well thought-out and sensible; he's just in the entirely wrong genre for those qualities to be remotely relevant to its success.

It doesn't help that up to that point, the genre looks like one where it should work. Obviously the character's timeline could make it more obvious, but from ours it isn't.

Comment author: Lumifer 12 November 2014 03:35:53PM 6 points [-]

he's just in the entirely wrong genre for those qualities to be remotely relevant to its success.

Well, we can extract a life lesson from this: make sure that having well thought-out and sensible plans is actually relevant to success in the context you're operating in :-/ Go meta if needed :-)

Comment author: BloodyShrimp 11 November 2014 06:34:18PM 1 point [-]

But the map is the map...

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