STL comments on Occupy Wall Street: Predictions, Speculations - Less Wrong

-5 Post author: byrnema 19 October 2011 12:44AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 19 October 2011 05:12:57AM 5 points [-]

"The Gandhi quote" appears to be apocryphal. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_misquotations .

With today's Internet, when someone says that famous person X said awesome thing Y, the first thing you should do is search for confirmation. It can keep you from being embarrassed.

Comment author: byrnema 19 October 2011 08:02:37AM *  3 points [-]

the first thing you should do is search for confirmation

There ought to be a clever turn of phrase for what Google 'thinks' on the first page verses what you find when you dig a little deeper.

Comment author: TheOtherDave 19 October 2011 03:42:43PM 15 points [-]

"For every interesting question there is a wrong answer with a high page rank."

Comment author: [deleted] 21 October 2011 05:03:02PM *  6 points [-]

"For every interesting question there is a wrong answer with a high page rank."

-Benjamin Franklin

Comment author: lessdazed 19 October 2011 08:34:04AM 5 points [-]

confirmation

Disconfirmation.

Comment author: Jack 19 October 2011 08:18:32PM 0 points [-]

Intriguingly, no one seems to have any idea where the quote came from.