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Do not quote yourself
Do not quote comments/posts on LW/OB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Do not quote yourself
Do not quote comments/posts on LW/OB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

But it's not.

Kinda mean to downvote somebody for breaking a rule that doesn't exist (yet), don't you think?

No mean-ness intended, and it's only one downvoted. If we let HPMoR quotes in here we'd be spending this whole thread reading HPMoR which isn't particularly helpful.

I was also under the impression that it had been at some previous point specifically mentioned in the rules. And considering HPMoR as a part of LW is not unreasonable: you yourself did that here.

9wedrifid14y

Not especially. It's using downvotes exactly as intended. It would be fine even if there was an explicit endorsement of HPMoR quotes as being sufficiently external to qualify for the thread, if tgb just happened personally not to like them. Incidentally, I down-voted a quote of Eliezer from TDT a week ago and just didn't think it was worth making a comment about it. Really, Eliezer making one of his essays slightly longer than the others and publishing it in a very slightly more formal form doesn't change the nature or role significantly. (Mind you, I would likely have ignored it or upvoted if the specific quote was sufficiently impressive to make up for it.) EDIT: It could actually be mean, denotatively but if so it does not have the features that some other mean things do that make them not an acceptable and sometimes virtuous thing to do.