“Your strength as a rationalist is your ability to be more confused by fiction than by reality. If you are equally good at explaining any outcome, you have zero knowledge.”
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“Not all those who wander are lost.”
― The Fellowship of the Ring
― The Fellowship of the Ring
“You need one whole hell of a lot of rationality before it does anything but lead you into new and interesting mistakes.”
― The Less Wrong Sequences
― The Less Wrong Sequences
“1492. As children we were taught to memorize this year with pride and joy as the year people began living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America. Actually, people had been living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America for hundreds of years before that. 1492 was simply the year sea pirates began to rob, cheat, and kill them.”
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“...there's something in science like the shine of the Patronus Charm, driving back all sorts of darkness and madness...”
― Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
― Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
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