Rationality Quotes October 2011

MinibearRex

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Here's the new thread for posting quotes, with the usual rules:

Please post all quotes separately, so that they can be voted up/down separately. (If they are strongly related, reply to your own comments. If strongly ordered, then go ahead and post them together.)
Do not quote yourself.
Do not quote comments/posts on LW/OB.
No more than 5 quotes per person per monthly thread, please.

I don't think this particular case is good evidence that this is a problem

I don't either, I think it's a good example. I'm not arguing for this being a problem, I'm pointing out that it looks like one.

The first is that the most likely reason the relevance of the question was not remarked on here is that it is so obviously irrelevant that it went without saying

Remarking on irrelevance of a question is irrelevant in itself, one should act on that by ignoring the question on object level.

Remarking on irrelevance of a question is irrelevant in itself, one should act on that by ignoring the question on object level.

Logically rude statements tend to be irrelevancies. Should they never be pointed out?

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