arborealhominid comments on Rationality Quotes January 2013 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: arborealhominid 16 January 2013 12:03:35AM 0 points [-]

Whenever I'm about to do something, I think, "Would an idiot do that?" And if they would, then I do not do that thing.

-Dwight K. Schrute

Comment author: [deleted] 16 January 2013 12:56:00AM 4 points [-]

Reversed stupidity is not intelligence. Would an idiot drink when they're thirsty? Yes they would.

Comment author: arborealhominid 16 January 2013 02:47:29AM 1 point [-]

Extremely good point! I liked this quote because I thought it was a funny way to describe taking the outside view, but you're completely right that it advocates reversed stupidity (at least when taken completely literally).

Comment author: Desrtopa 16 January 2013 01:50:42AM 1 point [-]

Also a duplicate, about which I made roughly the same comment the first time it was posted.

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