Another month, another rationality quotes thread. The rules are:
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Reason is poor propaganda when opposed by the yammering, unceasing lies of shrewd and evil and self-serving men. The little man has no way to judge and the shoddy lies are packaged more attractively. There is no way to offer color to a colorblind man, nor is there any way for us to give the man of imperfect brain the canny skill to distinguish a lie from a truth.
-- Robert A Heinlein. Assignment in Eternity, Loc 939 (Kindle edition)
I guess we'll just have to rely on all those people with perfect brains, then.
I can predict with great confidence that those people will not make any mistakes.
(They will not do anything else, either.)
3NancyLebovitz
It turns out that a lot of color blind people can see their difficult colors a little bit, and technological aid helps.
http://wearecolorblind.com/article/oxy-iso-glasses-review/
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-eyewear-could-help-people-with-red-green-color-blindness/
They don't seem to help (most?) people as much of the more enthusiastic early reviews said, but aren't totally useless, either.
Another month, another rationality quotes thread. The rules are: