Douglas_Knight comments on The Second Best - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Douglas_Knight 28 July 2009 03:03:19AM *  1 point [-]

Right, to demand a Pareto-efficient outcome is not to demand that all changes are Pareto-improvements.

PG is right to say that the society he describes is Pareto-efficient and awful, but it's not the only Pareto-efficient society.