Here's another installment of rationality quotes. The usual rules apply:
- 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- Do not quote yourself.
- Do not quote from Less Wrong itself, Overcoming Bias, or HPMoR.
- No more than 5 quotes per person per monthly thread, please.
It's the diary of Roger Bacon.
(If I am totally confused and you were not making a Methods of Rationality reference like I thought you were, please ignore this entire subthread.)
Oh dear. It turns out I thought MoR referenced Francis Bacon, not Roger Bacon... Francis was just so much more available as a "great person from the history of rationality and science" that I must have kept misreading the name every time. I had to check Wikipedia just now to make sure I knew who Roger Bacon even was!
Thanks for correcting me, then.
It does seem a bit odd why Harry would attach such importance to Roger Bacon, compared with someone like Francis.