Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Rationality Quotes: October 2009 - Less Wrong
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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:
What's the point of a quota if you're getting mostly upvotes?
Perhaps that is the point of the quota?
That would be diversity and restraint.
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.