billswift comments on A Sense That More Is Possible - Less Wrong

61 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 13 March 2009 01:15AM

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Comment author: billswift 13 March 2009 05:11:34AM *  3 points [-]

Before you consider taking this down, you might want to read Thomas Sowell's "A Conflict of Visions" and "Knowledge and Decisions". Some (Many) problems cannot be "solved" but must be continually "worked on". I suspect most "self-improvement" programs are of this type. (Sowell doesn't address this, his discussion and examples are all from economic and social problems, but I think they're applicable.)