Rationality Quotes Thread January 2016

elharo

Another month, another rationality quotes thread. The rules are:

Provide sufficient information (URL, title, date, page number, etc.) to enable a reader to find the place where you read the quote, or its original source if available. Do not quote with only a name.
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Do not quote yourself.
Do not quote from Less Wrong itself, HPMoR, Eliezer Yudkowsky, or Robin Hanson. If you'd like to revive an old quote from one of those sources, please do so here.
No more than 5 quotes per person per monthly thread, please.

Another month, another rationality quotes thread. The rules are:

Provide sufficient information (URL, title, date, page number, etc.) to enable a reader to find the place where you read the quote, or its original source if available. Do not quote with only a name.
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Do not quote yourself.
Do not quote from Less Wrong itself, HPMoR, Eliezer Yudkowsky, or Robin Hanson. If you'd like to revive an old quote from one of those sources, please do so here.
No more than 5 quotes per person per monthly thread, please.

Is that a bad thing?

Let me add another:

“The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything” ― Albert Einstein

I don't believe you're evil for rule-lawyering and depriving people of good quotes. I believe there are stressors in your life that pressure you into acting that way, unaware of the social consequences in their enumeration. I hope those who appreciate the quotes will make their position clear with karma, and those who do not assert the counterpoint.

I consider "lots of mildly upvoted quotes" to be a failure mode of this thread. It becomes a place where one can too easily come and spend a lot of time reading things of little value. Alternatively, it becomes a place where one doesn't bother to come, because the good stuff is drowned out by the mediocre stuff. Rate-limiting posters seems like a pretty good way to avoid this failure mode.

7TimS10y

One can debate the norms of a thread, or one can look at the listed expectations of the rationality quote thread: [...] Have you done more? I haven't counted and don't care. I don't think rationality quotes threads have any value beyond karma mining anyway. I object to accusations of "rules-lawyering" on the grounds that it is an almost always an attempt to pretty up "I disagree." [...] Telling someone else what their motivations are is trying to pick a fight. Stop.

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