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Larks comments on Rationality Quotes from people associated with LessWrong - Less Wrong Discussion

24 Post author: ChristianKl 29 July 2013 01:19PM

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Comment author: Larks 29 July 2013 02:24:27PM 1 point [-]

Perhaps the rule should be "Rationality Quotes from people associated with LessWrong that they made elsewhere", which would be useful, but not simply duplicate other parts of LW.

Comment author: ciphergoth 29 July 2013 03:42:41PM 26 points [-]

I think the rule should be simply the exact converse of the existing Rationality Quotes rule, so every good quote has a home in exactly one such place.

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 29 July 2013 05:43:19PM 5 points [-]

How about a waiting period? I'm thinking that quotes from LW have to be at least 3 years old. It's way of keeping good quotes from getting lost in the past while not having too much redundancy here.

Comment author: tim 29 July 2013 07:40:13PM 12 points [-]

I think three years is too long. I would imagine that there are a large number of useful quotes that are novel to many users that are much less than three years old.

Personally I would say we should just let it ride as is with no restrictions. If redundancy and thread bloat become noticeable issues then yeah, we might want to set up a minimum age for contributions.

Comment author: wedrifid 31 July 2013 02:18:30AM *  2 points [-]

I think the rule should be simply the exact converse of the existing Rationality Quotes rule, so every good quote has a home in exactly one such place.

This would be ideal. I like the notion of having a place for excellent rationalist quotes but like having the "non-echo chamber" rationality quotes page too.

Comment author: David_Gerard 30 July 2013 01:14:23PM 5 points [-]

I think let's see what happens.