Rationality Quotes September 2012

Jayson_Virissimo

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Do not quote yourself
Do not quote comments/posts on LW/OB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Do not quote yourself
Do not quote comments/posts on LW/OB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

It is an example of the system working as it should!

Really, it's an example of the system backfiring,causing someone to upvote a comment that deserved a downvoting it would probably otherwise have received.

What probability do you assign to someone with total karma less than 5 coming and translating this specific Will_Newsome's comment into intelligible speach? My estimate is: epsilon.

Breaking a rule, and explaining that it has to be done to provide an opportunity for something with epsilon probability and a very low value even if it happened... that's just an example of a person deliberately breaking a rule, and signalling dissatisfaction with the rule.

1RomanDavis14y

That was my point.