gjm comments on Rationality Quotes November 2011 - Less Wrong

6 Post author: Jayson_Virissimo 01 November 2011 06:28PM

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Comment author: Thomas 01 November 2011 07:12:34PM 9 points [-]

If you're so smart, why aren't you rich?

Comment author: gjm 01 November 2011 07:29:50PM 6 points [-]

If you're so rich, why aren't you smart? -- Traditional reply. (I'm not sure it makes much sense, but then neither does the original question.)

Comment author: Vaniver 01 November 2011 07:51:18PM 0 points [-]

To which, of course, the reply is that they don't need to be, and so why waste the effort? That is, they are smart, on the level that's important.

Comment author: RobinZ 01 November 2011 09:04:23PM 6 points [-]

Oddly, this reply works equally well for the original quote.

Comment author: anandjeyahar 02 November 2011 07:46:53AM 0 points [-]

Exactly.... to me this is always a sign of a strawman argument..

Comment author: Jayson_Virissimo 03 November 2011 02:52:15PM 2 points [-]

Comment author: DoubleReed 03 November 2011 02:59:33PM 0 points [-]

Or maybe both statements are equally ridiculous.

Comment author: gjm 01 November 2011 10:13:36PM 0 points [-]

If the only thing that's important is money, yes.

Comment author: thomblake 01 November 2011 10:17:01PM 9 points [-]

Or if money were fungible.