Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Rationality Quotes: October 2009 - Less Wrong

7 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 22 October 2009 04:06PM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 22 October 2009 08:21:59PM 8 points [-]

Okay, I'm over my quota, but I really have to reproduce this from an ensuing discussion between myself and Michael Vassar, in which Michael Vassar commented that Galileo seemed to have accomplished his feats through character traits other than ultra-high-g:

"Wait, I just called myself 'not that smart, like Galileo'. What does that do to my Crackpot Index?!" -- Michael Vassar

Comment author: jimmy 22 October 2009 09:03:32PM 0 points [-]

What's the point of a quota if you're getting mostly upvotes?

Comment author: PhilGoetz 22 October 2009 09:32:51PM 3 points [-]

Perhaps that is the point of the quota?

Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 22 October 2009 09:44:55PM *  4 points [-]

That would be diversity and restraint.

Comment author: PhilGoetz 23 October 2009 01:42:32AM 7 points [-]

Perhaps (he clarifies) one of the points of the quota is to prevent people from scoring lots of easy karma points via rationality quotes, which are the easiest way to get karma.