You have to stick around to defend them, and (and this is the tricky bit) have people willing to bother arguing them with you. Overcoming Bias appears to have disappeared down the rabbit hole of no feedback, for example. I suspect one needs to keep a close eye on one’s awareness of how different one is from the mainstream of thought.
Think about problems that don’t seem “worth thinking about”
That hardly strikes me as rational- that just sounds like “curious” or “intellectually unbounded.”
Come to non-traditional conclusions, and share those thoughts publicly… even it it makes you look silly
A good reason as to why this is Hanson displaying rationality, but that doesn’t seem to me to be a “rationality quote.” It isn’t particularly deep wisdom that he imagines the closer harm to him is worse than the further harm to him. Being cuckolded is terrible enough for people to kill others, being raped is terrible enough for people to kill others and kill themselves; I suspect Hanson is unconsciously revealing which issue worries him more rather than which issue is actually worse to deal with.
There is also the following issue which I was hoping you would address:
Do not quote comments/posts on LW/OB. That’s like shooting fish in a barrel. :)
A good rationality quote is one that gets deeper the more you think about it—and, for me personally, the above quote has been on the back of my mind all night.
YMMV, of course.
Edit: I took the LW/OB rule to be about more “obvious” quotes
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Because cuckolding would require me to be in a relationship at all, I think I’ll take it.
Why is this a rationality quote?
It conveys a message about the way humans think about moral problems.
That qualifies just about any quote, though.
Willingness to:
Think about problems that don’t seem “worth thinking about”
Come to non-traditional conclusions, and share those thoughts publicly… even it it makes you look silly
If it accomplishes little else, I don’t see how this signifies rationality. It shows a lack of understanding of the importance of signaling.
You have to stick around to defend them, and (and this is the tricky bit) have people willing to bother arguing them with you. Overcoming Bias appears to have disappeared down the rabbit hole of no feedback, for example. I suspect one needs to keep a close eye on one’s awareness of how different one is from the mainstream of thought.
That hardly strikes me as rational- that just sounds like “curious” or “intellectually unbounded.”
A good reason as to why this is Hanson displaying rationality, but that doesn’t seem to me to be a “rationality quote.” It isn’t particularly deep wisdom that he imagines the closer harm to him is worse than the further harm to him. Being cuckolded is terrible enough for people to kill others, being raped is terrible enough for people to kill others and kill themselves; I suspect Hanson is unconsciously revealing which issue worries him more rather than which issue is actually worse to deal with.
There is also the following issue which I was hoping you would address:
A good rationality quote is one that gets deeper the more you think about it—and, for me personally, the above quote has been on the back of my mind all night.
YMMV, of course.
Edit: I took the LW/OB rule to be about more “obvious” quotes
That originates on OB, so it’s not really eligible for this thread.
I’ll be honest and admit that if I found it stirringly rational, it probably wouldn’t have crossed my mind to point that out though.