bgrah449 comments on Privileged Snuff - Less Wrong

17 Post author: rwallace 22 January 2010 05:38AM

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Comment author: bgrah449 22 January 2010 06:44:58PM *  0 points [-]

It is the hypothesis that snuffing out progress, extinguishing futures that might have been, is the safe option.

"Progress" is hindsight bias; you don't know when you're snuffing whether it'll eventually be understood as progress or regress by the people who survive the change to make the judgment.