josht comments on Rationality Quotes: July 2010 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: josht 08 July 2010 09:30:39AM 15 points [-]

A recent one from Linux Weekly News that gives insight into rationality:

Side note: when a respected information source covers something where you have on-the-ground experience, the result is often to make you wonder how much fecal matter you've swallowed in areas outside your own expertise. -- Rusty Russell

Comment author: stcredzero 11 July 2010 08:44:22PM 2 points [-]

Similar to what professor Karel Culik said about Time magazine. He thought Time was really good, until he read something about computer science, and he started to wonder about the rest of it.

Comment author: HonoreDB 24 December 2010 04:28:51PM 0 points [-]

This was the original sense of TVTropes/DanBrowned, although the scope seems to have broadened a bit.