NancyLebovitz comments on Rationality Quotes April 2012 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 04 April 2012 12:44:39PM *  4 points [-]

Unmanageable because the site software doesn't show more than 500 (top-level?) comments, and because large numbers of comments load more slowly.

There's a way to find top-voted quotes-- Best of Rationality Quotes 2009/2010 (Warning: 750kB page, 774 quotes). This could be considered a hint about the quantity problem.

There is another one for 2011.

As for dupes, the search on the site is adequate for finding them-- what's needed is a recommendation on the quotes page for people to check before posting.

I think the quotes continue to be somewhat interesting, but it's not so much that there are no great ones left (though I was surprised to discover recently that "Nature to be commanded must be obeyed" hadn't been listed) as that they tend to keep hitting the same points.

Comment author: MarkusRamikin 04 April 2012 12:54:45PM 2 points [-]

I see. Thank you.

It seems to me that there's room for improvement to the software, then. However, I'll shut up at this point.

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 04 April 2012 12:58:09PM 1 point [-]

You're welcome.

There's always room for improvement in the software. Once in a while, there's a request for suggestions, so you might want to think about the changes you'd like to see.

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 08 April 2012 03:05:47PM 1 point [-]

To my mind, the redundancy problem with the quotes pages isn't so much repeated quotes as different quotes which mean pretty much the same thing.

Comment author: RichardKennaway 11 April 2012 08:44:51AM 0 points [-]

How many different things are there to say about rationality?

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 11 April 2012 09:12:15AM 3 points [-]

Well, the right question is "How many different brief things are there to say about rationality?"

If you're allowed to go on at length, the sequences imply that there's quite a bit to say.

I don't think the question about brief statements has an a priori answer.