“If you don’t see where this is going, then you haven’t read Douglas Hofstadter’s Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, which makes you incomplete as a human being.”
I always disapprove of this sort of literary chauvinism as a matter of principle—GEB is a good book, but hardly necessary to the development of the human organism.
Eh, it’s pretty clear that it was only intended to be a hyperbolically strong recommendation of a book. No need to interpret it literally. (Still, despite that, and despite its status as one of my favourite books, I agree that it doesn’t really fit as a “rationality quote”.)
“If you don’t see where this is going, then you haven’t read Douglas Hofstadter’s Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, which makes you incomplete as a human being.”
-- Eliezer Yudkowsky
I always disapprove of this sort of literary chauvinism as a matter of principle—GEB is a good book, but hardly necessary to the development of the human organism.
Eh, it’s pretty clear that it was only intended to be a hyperbolically strong recommendation of a book. No need to interpret it literally. (Still, despite that, and despite its status as one of my favourite books, I agree that it doesn’t really fit as a “rationality quote”.)
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