Once upon a time, there were posts where people would comment with quotes. The last one was a while ago, and they’d been getting less and less traffic.
I have a theory that there’s a quote overhang. Firstly, I think LessWrong has recovered a lot since the 2015~2017 decline, and so there might just be more users around. Second, it’s been half a decade and so many new quotable lines may have been written. I have a another theory that the way LessWrong 2.0 splits Frontpage and Personal is rougher on a quotes thread than 1.0′s Main and Discussion. The best thing to do with a theory is to test it.
The rules are as follows:
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Do not quote yourself.
Do not quote from LessWrong itself, HPMoR, Eliezer Yudkowsky, or Robin Hanson.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. I’m going to declare an exception: Planecrash quotes are fine to post this round. Planecrash was half written by Eliezer, but wasn’t written on LessWrong and was written entirely since the last quotes post, so there’s close to no chance someone already put it in a quotes thread.
No more than 5 quotes per person per monthly thread, please.
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 Do not quote with only a name.
Rationality Quotes—Fall 2024
Once upon a time, there were posts where people would comment with quotes. The last one was a while ago, and they’d been getting less and less traffic.
I have a theory that there’s a quote overhang. Firstly, I think LessWrong has recovered a lot since the 2015~2017 decline, and so there might just be more users around. Second, it’s been half a decade and so many new quotable lines may have been written. I have a another theory that the way LessWrong 2.0 splits Frontpage and Personal is rougher on a quotes thread than 1.0′s Main and Discussion. The best thing to do with a theory is to test it.
The rules are as follows:
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Do not quote yourself.
Do not quote from LessWrong itself, HPMoR, Eliezer Yudkowsky, or Robin Hanson.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. I’m going to declare an exception: Planecrash quotes are fine to post this round. Planecrash was half written by Eliezer, but wasn’t written on LessWrong and was written entirely since the last quotes post, so there’s close to no chance someone already put it in a quotes thread.
No more than 5 quotes per person per monthly thread, please.
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.