DanielVarga comments on Best of Rationality Quotes 2009/2010 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: DanielVarga 22 December 2010 03:17:50AM *  3 points [-]

Top people quoted?

To properly do this, you have to do named entity recognition and normalization. I just collected the most frequent capitalized words, threw away the ones recognized by my morphological analyzer, and did a small amount of manual postprocessing. Note that Bacon, Wells and Hawking are recognized by my morphological analyzer.

  • 16 Russell
  • 12 Nietzsche
  • 12 Feynman
  • 11 Pratchett
  • 10 Einstein
  • 9 Chesterton
  • 9 Asimov
  • 8 Taleb
  • 8 Scott
  • 8 Johnson
  • 8 Heinlein
  • 8 Dennett
  • 7 Wilson
  • 7 Voltaire
  • 7 Dawkins
  • 6 Thoreau
  • 6 Rochefoucauld
  • 6 Neumann
  • 6 Marx
  • 6 Gould
  • 6 Dijkstra
  • 6 Binmore
  • 5 Jaynes
  • 5 Huxley
  • 5 Galileo
  • 5 Egan
  • 5 Descartes
  • 5 Darwin
  • 5 Buffett
  • 5 Ayn
  • 5 Aristotle
  • 4 Yudkowsky
  • 4 Wittgenstein
  • 4 Wilde
  • 4 Thompson
  • 4 Suzumiya
  • 4 Simpson
  • 4 Schopenhauer
  • 4 Sagan
  • 4 Rommel
  • 4 Rollins
Comment author: MichaelHoward 22 December 2010 03:26:28AM 1 point [-]

Cool :)

Top people quoted by total karma?

Comment author: DanielVarga 22 December 2010 03:39:25AM *  5 points [-]

You definitely used up all your wishes. :) The above list reordered by total karma collected:

  • 158 Russell
  • 109 Pratchett
  • 106 Asimov
  • 101 Dennett
  • 100 Chesterton
  • 82 Buffett
  • 81 Egan
  • 79 Nietzsche
  • 77 Feynman
  • 72 Voltaire
  • 66 Scott
  • 66 Neumann
  • 66 Descartes
  • 61 Heinlein
  • 59 Dijkstra
  • 58 Marx
  • 57 Aristotle
  • 52 Darwin
  • 49 Galileo
  • 48 Einstein
  • 46 Taleb
  • 46 Binmore
  • 45 Johnson
  • 43 Jaynes
  • 42 Rollins
  • 39 Sagan
  • 34 Wilde
  • 34 Dawkins
  • 28 Gould
  • 25 Wilson
  • 25 Rochefoucauld
  • 23 Huxley
  • 22 Ayn
  • 15 Simpson
  • 13 Wittgenstein
  • 13 Schopenhauer
  • 12 Yudkowsky
  • 12 Thoreau
  • 11 Thompson
  • 8 Suzumiya
  • 2 Rommel
Comment author: wedrifid 24 December 2010 01:57:17PM 1 point [-]

OK. Who quoted Yudkowsky? Hopefully it was quotes from elsewhere. :)

Comment author: RobinZ 24 December 2010 05:23:16PM *  1 point [-]

Hacker News, for one - I don't know where the other eight points may be from.

Edit: Six more points from Methods of Rationality

Comment author: MichaelHoward 22 December 2010 03:58:06AM 1 point [-]

You definitely used up all your wishes. :)

Yeah, I wasn't precise enough on that second wish. Oh well, World Peace will have to wait.

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