Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Rationality Quotes: October 2009 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 22 October 2009 04:27:04PM 3 points [-]

In volunteer organizations, when someone was allowed to fail to teach them a lesson about their responsibilities, I do not ever remember them learning that lesson.

-- Matt Arnold

Comment author: Douglas_Knight 22 October 2009 06:13:31PM 3 points [-]

I would have been able to read that sentence correctly without context if it had a comma: "allowed to fail, to teach them a lesson."

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