cousin_it comments on That Magical Click - Less Wrong

58 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 20 January 2010 04:35PM

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Comment author: cousin_it 21 January 2010 02:44:15PM 1 point [-]

With an unforgivable naivete, a childish stupidity, we all still think history is leading us towards good, that some happiness awaits us ahead; but it will bring us to blood and fire, such blood and such fire as we haven't seen yet.

-- Nikolai Strakhov, 1870s

Comment author: PatSwanson 27 December 2012 09:27:34PM 2 points [-]

Compared to now, he was wrong.

Why should we think he will be wrong about our future when he was wrong about his own?

Comment author: denisbider 25 January 2010 04:11:56PM 1 point [-]

Well, he was right. After all, WWI and WWII then lay just ahead. And our current, relatively peaceful period may, in fact, be building up to a period yet worse than that. Though, of course, we hope it's not.