Rationality Quotes September 2011

dvasya

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Here's the new thread for posting quotes, with the usual rules:

Please post all quotes separately, so that they can be voted up/down 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Do not quote yourself.
Do not quote comments/posts on LW/OB.
No more than 5 quotes per person per monthly thread, please.

But naturally doing everything faster would be pretty freaking awesome in itself.

increased yearly economic growth (consequently higher average living standards since babies still take 9 months to make)
it would help everyone cram much more living into their lifespan.
it would help experts deal with events that aren't sped up much better. Say an oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico.
medical advances would arrive earlier meaning that lots of people who would otherwise have died might live for a few more productive (sped up!) years.

But I'm having way to much fun nitpicking so I'll just stop here. :)

it would help everyone cram much more living into their lifespan

ISTM that there are lots of people who don't want to cram more living into their lifespan, given the time they spend watching TV and stuff like that.

2fortyeridania14y

Yes, especially this one. Put differently, imagine a pill that made North Americans cognitively slower. Wouldn't that be an obvious step down (for reasons symmetric to the ones you've highlighted)?

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