JoshuaZ comments on Open Thread June 2010, Part 2 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: JoshuaZ 08 June 2010 12:10:26AM 2 points [-]

It might make more sense to put this on the Wiki. Two notes: First, some of the quotes have remarks contained in the posts which you have not edited out. I don't know if you intend to keep those. Second, some of the quotes are comments from quote threads that aren't actually quotes. 14 SilasBarta is one example. (And is just me or does that citation form read like a citation from a religious text ?)

Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 08 June 2010 12:24:29AM 4 points [-]

On the wiki, this text will be dead, because nobody will be adding new items there by hand.

Comment author: DanielVarga 08 June 2010 02:11:00PM *  2 points [-]

I agreed with you, I even started to write a reply to JoshuaZ about the intricacies of human-machine cooperation in text-processing pipelines. But then I realized that it is not necessarily a problem if the text is dead. A Rationality Quotes, Best of 2010 Edition could be nice.

Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 08 June 2010 02:17:15PM *  1 point [-]

Agreed. Best of 2009 can be compiled now and frozen, best of 2010 end of the year and so on. It'd also be useful to publish the source code of whatever script was used to generate the rating on the wiki, as a subpage.