Rationality Quotes June 2013

Thomas

Another month has passed and here is a new rationality quotes thread. The usual rules are:

Please post all quotes separately, so that they can be upvoted or downvoted 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Do not quote yourself.
Do not quote from Less Wrong itself, Overcoming Bias, or HPMoR.
No more than 5 quotes per person per monthly thread, please.

Another month has passed and here is a new rationality quotes thread. The usual rules are:

Please post all quotes separately, so that they can be upvoted or downvoted 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Do not quote yourself.
Do not quote from Less Wrong itself, Overcoming Bias, or HPMoR.
No more than 5 quotes per person per monthly thread, please.

I believe the implication is "I am doing you a favor by spraying graffiti on your apartment building, because that will cause your rent to decrease."

I don't know if this is actually true, but that's what I take to be the intent.

So it's utility maximising for renters, assuming they don't get caught and the time penalty isn't significant, to deface their property or those in their area so that the property is less attractive to others, assuming they don't value the original state aesthetics of the property relative to the defaced state more than the price differential?

0Richard_Kennaway13y

That is a lot to squeeze from four words. FWIW, they struck me as a snarl of rage against people who have more money than the perpetrators. As a tenant in such an apartment building I would reply that nice white walls and a nice neighbourhood is the entire point of paying that rent, and that anyone who wants to live in a slum should go and find one, preferably a long way from me.

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