Rationality Quotes August 2012

Alejandro1

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Do not quote yourself
Do not quote comments/posts on LW/OB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

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Do not quote yourself
Do not quote comments/posts on LW/OB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

Am I the only one who is confused why this comment (currently at -3) has drifted to the top when sorted with the new "Best" algorithm? That seems to be either a mistake or a bad algorithm.

I see negative-scored comments in http://lesswrong.com/topcomments/?t=day pretty often. Likewise, sometimes sorting comments by “Old” mis-sorts some of them (which is somewhat confusing when reading comments to old posts imported from Overcoming Bias).

3harshhpareek14y

Not necessarily a bad algorithm. This is possible if it uses your karma as a factor, which is in general not a bad idea (in this case countered by the collapsing negative scores thing)

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