Torben comments on On the Power of Intelligence and Rationality - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Torben 28 December 2009 05:09:08PM 0 points [-]

...and you can draw a pretty direct line from the part where Hitler was insane to Nazi military defeats

Like not going for the Middle East, but focusing on Russia. I had grown used to the idea that Allied victory was pretty much ensured, at least by the entry of the US into the war. Reading about how Hitler's generals really, really wanted him to go through Egypt to the oil was unsettling.