Rationality Quotes October 2011

MinibearRex

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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Do not quote yourself.
Do not quote comments/posts on LW/OB.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.

I meant "we" as in "we, as a society", or more specifically "we, the society that I happen to find myself in." Please pardon the ambiguity.

I was being facetious. Please pardon the ambiguity.

We'd probably all end up there too, based on the near certainty that we're doing things that people in the future will correctly consider as obviously immoral.

Seems to imply, at least to me, a function of "we" that includes "I". Plus, it seems a more interesting question to ask what you're doing that might come to be considered immoral - it's rather unlikely that you're really perfect, isn't it?

It's easy to say "that thing that all those other people are doing, and which I alre... (read more)

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