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"A car with a broken engine cannot drive backward at 200 mph, even if the engine is really really broken."
--Eliezer
Good quote, of course, but it's against one of the rules:
Out of curiosity, does that rule extend to, say, material originally posted on Yudkowsky's personal site and later re-used or quoted as a source in a LW/OB article/post/comment? Is that a gray area?
Yes. It's also slightly gray to post quotes from other prominent Lesswrongians.
Where I make my 'slightly gray' evaluation based on whether the quote is sufficiently baddass to make it worth stretching the spirit of the thread. Sometimes they are. It's when the quotes aren't even all that good that I'd discourage it.
When did this rule come about? As recently as six months ago it was considered normal to quote EY as long as it wasn't from LW.
I figured the intent of the rule was "don't turn quotes threads into LW ingroup circlejerks", so the idea's to not do any quotes from e.g. the people in the "Top contributors" sidebar, no matter where they showed up. Do other people have other interpretations for the rule?
I'm surprised by this. I never noticed this "considered normal".
I'm pretty sure gray areas aren't rules. The actual non-gray rule is listed in the OP.
Well, Yudkowsky was one of the top authors for 2011.
Hmm. So we're weighing badass-ness (as in wedrifid's comment (sister to this one)) against the "don't post quotes that are already part of the general LessWrong gestalt" (in whatever capacity that exists) valuation, in such cases?
tch. Should've caught that.