Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Rationality quotes: October 2010 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: mtaran 09 October 2010 03:23:00AM 5 points [-]

From a hacker news thread on the difficulty of finding or making food that's fast, cheap and healthy.

"Former poet laureate of the US, Charles Simic says, the secret to happiness begins with learning how to cook." -- pfarrell

Reply: "Well, I'm sure there's some economics laureate out there who says that the secret to efficiency begins with comparative advantage." -- Eliezer Yudkowsky

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 13 October 2010 03:21:41PM *  0 points [-]

thanks, but no quoting LWers in this post

Comment author: RobinZ 13 October 2010 03:58:32PM 5 points [-]

But the quote is from a hacker news thread, isn't it? Would we want to stop quoting Dennett's books if he became a regular here?

Comment author: Fleisch 13 October 2010 07:58:07PM *  0 points [-]

Probably not, but you wouldn't (need to) quote what he wrote here.

EDIT: Or rather, what he's writing since he's here, unless it's still novel to LW.