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 (2007)

Source: http://lesswrong.com/lw/if/your_strength_as_a_rationalist/

From his August 2007 LessWrong post "Your Strength as a Rationalist".

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