gwern comments on Best of Rationality Quotes, 2011 Edition - Less Wrong

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Comment author: DanielVarga 28 December 2011 03:07:18AM *  9 points [-]

Top original authors by number of quotes.

  • Feynman 28
  • Russell 26
  • Pratchett 18
  • Nietzsche 18
  • Heinlein 18
  • Einstein 15
  • Dawkins 14
  • Chesterton 12
  • Wilson 11
  • Johnson 11
  • Asimov 11
  • Taleb 10
  • Dennett 10
  • Darwin 10
  • Voltaire 9
  • Meier 9
  • Hume 9
  • Clark 9
  • Buffett 9
  • Neumann 8
  • Thoreau 7
  • Rochefoucauld 7
  • Peirce 7
  • Medawar 7
  • Keynes 7
  • Huxley 7
  • Gould 7
  • Dijkstra 7
  • Aristotle 7
  • Yudkowsky 6
  • Plato 6
  • Orwell 6
  • Munroe 6
  • Mencken 6
  • Marx 6
  • Marshall 6
  • Lichtenberg 6
  • Kant 6
  • Jaynes 6

In fact, these are mentions, not really authors. Methodology: I collected the most frequent capitalized words in the comments, 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.

Comment author: gwern 31 December 2011 02:34:16AM 1 point [-]

Does the processing throw away Aubrey de Grey as well?

Comment author: DanielVarga 31 December 2011 12:17:43PM 0 points [-]

It throws away de Grey but keeps Aubrey. :) But I only see two Aubrey de Grey quotes in the whole corpus: This and this.

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