LW/OB Rationality Quotes, June 2011
I saw this article and thought “ah, that’s what’s been missing.” There’s many a bon mot posted here that’s outside the domain of the usual rationality quotes thread. Overcoming Bias seems still to be excluded from those too, even if the two blogs have diverged.
So:
This is a thread for posting any interesting rationality-related quotes you’ve seen on LW/OB.
Please post all quotes separately (so that they can be voted up/down separately) unless they are strongly related/ordered.
Do not quote yourself.
Do not post quotes that are NOT comments/posts on LW/OB—there is a separate thread for this.
No more than 5 quotes per person per thread, please.
(You may care to check the previous posts for duplicates.)
Vladimir_Nesov
This is the sort of thing that could kick off a meme. I mean, does even Batman have contingency plans for discovering his own nonexistence?
You bet he does! Why do you think there was that scene with the two boats in The Dark Knight? He’s trying to make the people in other worlds more aware of game-theoretical problems and more inclined to cooperate on them!
By the way, I can’t find the original Nesov comment anymore. Wonder if he deleted it for some reason.
Vladimir_Nesov
-- Eliezer Yudkowsky
Horoscope version: What matters is not what you want, but what you actually do. Today, be on the lookout for choices between actions that are more likely to achieve your goals, and actions that are less likely to do so, and when those situations come up, actually do the former.
Vladimir_Nesov
-- Yvain
Commentary:
Applies to a lot
The problem looks general
Skeptics should take heed.
-- Eliezer Yudkowsky
It would seem that you can park the wheel of science on a hill and forget to set the brake: http://idlewords.com/2010/03/scott_and_scurvy.htm
The paradoxical commandments by Kent Keith:
People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered. ( Love them anyway.)
If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives. (Do good anyway.)
If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies. (Succeed anyway)
The good you to today will be forgotten tomorrow. (Do good anyway.)
Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable. (Be honest and frank anyway.)
The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds.(Think big anyway.)
People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs. (Fight for a few underdogs anyway.)
What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. (Build anyway.)
People really need help but may attack you if you do help them. (Help people anyway.)
Give the world the best you have and you’ll get kicked in the teeth. (Give the world the best you have anyway.)
I was going to post a version of that, but it’s cited as coming from Mother Theresa, and so has a religious angle in part of it.
(Also, this thread is for quotes from LW and OB itself. Stuff from outside goes here.)
The paradoxical commandments by Kent Keith:
People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered. ( Love them anyway.)
If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives. (Do good anyway.)
If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies. (Succeed anyway)
The good you to today will be forgotten tomorrow. (Do good anyway.)
Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable. (Be honest and frank anyway.)
The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds.(Think big anyway.)
People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs. (Fight for a few underdogs anyway.)
What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. (Build anyway.)
People really need help but may attack you if you do help them. (Help people anyway.)
Give the world the best you have and you’ll get kicked in the teeth. (Give the world the best you have anyway.)
The paradoxical commandments by Kent Keith:
People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered. ( Love them anyway.)
If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives. (Do good anyway.)
If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies. (Succeed anyway)
The good you to today will be forgotten tomorrow. (Do good anyway.)
Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable. (Be honest and frank anyway.)
The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds.(Think big anyway.)
People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs. (Fight for a few underdogs anyway.)
What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. (Build anyway.)
People really need help but may attack you if you do help them. (Help people anyway.)
Give the world the best you have and you’ll get kicked in the teeth. (Give the world the best you have anyway.)
People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered. ( Love them anyway.)
If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives. (Do good anyway.)
If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies. (Succeed anyway)
The good you to today will be forgotten tomorrow. (Do good anyway.)
Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable. (Be honest and frank anyway.)
The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds.(Think big anyway.)
People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs. (Fight for a few underdogs anyway.)
What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. (Build anyway.)
People really need help but may attack you if you do help them. (Help people anyway.)
Give the world the best you have and you’ll get kicked in the teeth. (Give the world the best you have anyway.) The paradoxical commandments by Kent Keith:
The paradoxical commandments by Kent Keith:
People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered. ( Love them anyway.)
If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives. (Do good anyway.)
If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies. (Succeed anyway)
The good you to today will be forgotten tomorrow. (Do good anyway.)
Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable. (Be honest and frank anyway.)
The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds.(Think big anyway.)
People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs. (Fight for a few underdogs anyway.)
What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. (Build anyway.)
People really need help but may attack you if you do help them. (Help people anyway.)
Give the world the best you have and you’ll get kicked in the teeth. (Give the world the best you have anyway.)
test
test
*test
test test *test
The paradoxical commandments by Kent Keith: bla test *test
The paradoxical commandments by Kent Keith:
The paradoxical commandments by Kent Keith:
The paradoxical commandments by Kent Keith:
The paradoxical commandments by Kent Keith:
The paradoxical commandments by Kent Keith:
People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered. ( Love them anyway.)
If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives. (Do good anyway.)
If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies. (Succeed anyway)
The good you to today will be forgotten tomorrow. (Do good anyway.)
Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable. (Be honest and frank anyway.)
The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds.(Think big anyway.)
People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs. (Fight for a few underdogs anyway.)
What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. (Build anyway.)
People really need help but may attack you if you do help them. (Help people anyway.)
Give the world the best you have and you’ll get kicked in the teeth. (Give the world the best you have anyway.)
The paradoxical commandments by Kent Keith: *People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered.
The paradoxical commandments by Kent Keith:
People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered. (Love them anyway.)
If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives. (Do good anyway.)
If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies. (Succeed anyway)
The good you to today will be forgotten tomorrow. (Do good anyway.)
Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable. (Be honest and frank anyway.)
The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds. (Think big anyway.)
People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs. (Fight for a few underdogs anyway.)
What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. (Build anyway.)
People really need help but may attack you if you do help them. (Help people anyway.)
Give the world the best you have and you’ll get kicked in the teeth. (Give the world the best you have anyway.)
The paradoxical commandments by Kent Keith:
People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered.
If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.
If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies.
The good you to today will be forgotten tomorrow.
Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.
The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds.
People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs.
What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.
People really need help but may attack you if you do help them.
Give the world the best you have and you’ll get kicked in the teeth.
The paradoxical commandments by Kent Keith:
People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered.
If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.
If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies.
The good you to today will be forgotten tomorrow.
The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds.
People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs.
What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.
People really need help but may attack you if you do help them.
Give the world the best you have and you’ll get kicked in the teeth.
The paradoxical commandments by Kent Keith: *People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered.
· People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered. Love them anyway. · If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives. Do good anyway. · If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway · The good you to today will be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway. · Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable. Be honest and frank anyway. · The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds. Think big anyway. · People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs. Fight for a few underdogs anyway. · What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway. · People really need help but may attack you if you do help them. Help people anyway. · Give the world the best you have and you’ll get kicked in the teeth. Give the world the best you have anyway.
--User:avalot (emphasis added)