tut comments on Rationality Quotes April 2012 - Less Wrong
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The other day I was thinking about Discworld, and then I remembered this and figured it would make a good rationality quote...
-- Terry Pratchett, Feet of Clay
Sounds like Vimes doesn't like Sherlock Holmes much.
Gee, you think?
Well, the quote made me think of this. Now that I looked up that post I notice that it is downvoted, so perhaps it isn't relevant. But the behavior that Vimes expresses distrust of in the Pratchett quote is pretty much the exact behavior that is used to show off how intelligent/perceptive Holmes is, and which the poster wants to use as an example for rationalists.
It is relevant and obvious. I suppose it was downvoted for the latter.