Rationality Quotes December 2014

Another month, another rationality quotes thread. The 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Do not quote yourself.
Do not quote from Less Wrong itself, HPMoR, Eliezer Yudkowsky, or Robin Hanson.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.
Provide sufficient information (URL, title, date, page number, etc.) to enable a reader to find the place where you read the quote, or its original source if available. Do not quote with only a name.

Another month, another rationality quotes thread. The 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Do not quote yourself.
Do not quote from Less Wrong itself, HPMoR, Eliezer Yudkowsky, or Robin Hanson.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.
Provide sufficient information (URL, title, date, page number, etc.) to enable a reader to find the place where you read the quote, or its original source if available. Do not quote with only a name.

Would you be inclined to stay at this "cool organization" a moment longer than you have to?

Yes, actually, and I don't see why it is creepy despite your repeated assertions that it is.

Several of them give answers, but all of those answers are variations of the same argument,

And if they gave completely different arguments, you'd complain about the remarkable co-incidence that all these arguments suggest the same policy.

Yes, actually, and I don't see why it is creepy despite your repeated assertions that it is.

Difference of opinion, then. I would find it creepy as all hell.

And if they gave completely different arguments, you'd complain about the remarkable co-incidence that all these arguments suggest the same policy.

I probably would, yes, but I would still prefer that world to the one in which they gave only one argument.

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