shokwave comments on Rationality Quotes June 2012 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: TheOtherDave 04 June 2012 02:56:58PM 2 points [-]

I now want to make up bumper stickers that read "What Would Paul Graham Do?"

Granted, I want to do other things that preclude doing so even more.

Comment author: shokwave 07 June 2012 07:53:57PM 8 points [-]

I now want to make up bumper stickers that read "What Would Paul Graham Do?"

Wanting to associate your identity with a person, in part because they have a very good argument for why you shouldn't associate your identity with things, and then doing something more important instead... there's something almost poetic or ironic about it.

Comment author: wedrifid 12 June 2012 12:12:32AM 1 point [-]

there's something almost poetic or ironic about it.

Poetic? Nice call.

On the plus side at least it indicates that they aren't so caught up in affiliation that we aren't able to ignore his dogmas when it isn't useful to us.