• 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.

    Eliezer Yudkowsky: 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.
    "Your Strength as a Rationalist". lesswrong.com. August 11, 2007.