PhilGoetz comments on The Correct Contrarian Cluster - Less Wrong

38 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 21 December 2009 10:01PM

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Comment author: cousin_it 23 December 2009 09:38:17AM *  7 points [-]

Numerous Russians I've spoken to have a blindness reconciling their views on Stalin with their views on Putin (the same attributes that made Stalin bad make Putin good).

...what? I'm Russian, not much a fan of Putin, but this statement seems insane to me. Here's what made Stalin bad. Putin doesn't even begin to compare.

Comment author: PhilGoetz 23 December 2009 10:57:33PM 4 points [-]

I didn't say Putin possesses the same attributes to the same degree. But the same adjectives come up. I guess it's not a very good example, since having X of property Y can be good, while having 2X of property Y is bad.