Rationality Quotes November 2011

Jayson_Virissimo

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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Do not quote yourself.
Do not quote comments/posts on LW/OB.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.

As Desrtopa and dlthomas pointed out below, your summary of this guy's situation is incorrect; I think that your wetware-based data collection policy may have something to do with this.

Speaking more generally, I am not sure I understand your "big picture" view. You say:

...and then when he gets sick with a non-acute ailment expects everyone to drop their shit and make his life better as a free ride...

Does this mean that you're against the very idea of having a social safety net ? Or are you merely saying that, while a safety net is a good idea, this particular person's expectations are unreasonable ?

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In that I misread where he stated he was earning minimum wage, yes. I acknowledge this. [...] It's not exactly as though I planned to publish research papers on this topic. I expect that my own personal observations are replicable but they are not directly share-able. This is no more unusual a "policy" than for anyone else who uses his or her own direct observations of a class of event to make judgments of said event. Please try not to use such loaded language.

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