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Rationality Quotes January - March 2017
27chaos8y00

Disasters and miracles follow similar rules. Charles Babbage, in his Ninth Bridgewater Treatise of 1837, considered the nature of miracles (which, as a computer scientist, he viewed as pre-determined but rarely-called subroutines) and urged us "to look upon miracles not as deviations from the laws assigned by the Almighty for the government of matter and of mind; but as the exact fulfilment of much more extensive laws than those we suppose to exist." It's that question of characteristic scale.

George Dyson, comment on Taleb's "The Fourth Quadrant".

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Rationality Quotes April 2016
27chaos9y00

Like what?

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Rationality Quotes April 2016
27chaos9y50

But the thought is one thing, the deed is another, and another yet is the image of the deed. The wheel of causality does not roll between them.

Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra.

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"3 Reasons It’s Irrational to Demand ‘Rationalism’ in Social Justice Activism"
27chaos9y30

Social justice is about culture, not just legal rights.

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Rationality Quotes Thread March 2016
27chaos9y00

I feel like general stupidity does exist, in the same way that general intelligence does? Not sure what you like about this quote. The idea that biases are diverse, maybe?

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Is Spirituality Irrational?
27chaos9y00

I think there's a joke to the effect that if you're bad in life then when you die God will send you to New Jersey, and I don't know anything about translations of earlier versions of the bible but I kind of hope that it's possible for us to interpret the Gehenna comparison as parallel to that.

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Rationality Quotes Thread March 2016
27chaos9y60

"Oh, but I only detest the mouth of the lion, where its fangs are kept; I do not detest the ear of the lion, nor its tail."

But the ear is how he found your brother, and when he leapt on your sister, the tail kept him straight.

Tycho of Penny Arcade, on the importance of systems thinking.

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Is altruistic deception really necessary? Social activism and the free market
27chaos10y00

I couldn't help but be distracted, sorry.

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Is altruistic deception really necessary? Social activism and the free market
27chaos10y60

A consequence of this observation is that we should expect Marxists, who believe the free market doesn't work, to lie much more often than capitalists, who think it does. Empirically, however, Democrats seem to lie much less than Republicans (see, e.g., a recent NY Times report on PolitiFact checking of the Presidential candidates), even though Republicans have much more faith in the free market.

This is an extremely terrible proxy for the question you're interested in.

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Rationality Quotes Thread February 2016
27chaos10y00

No, there are a lot more constraints, like material resources, or time, or even luck.

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