Kazuo_Thow comments on Rationality Quotes: February 2011 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Kazuo_Thow 02 February 2011 06:05:08AM 17 points [-]

Apathy on the individual level translates into insanity at the mass level.

-- Douglas Hofstadter

Comment author: TheOtherDave 02 February 2011 02:16:02PM 9 points [-]

Insanity will prevail when sane men do nothing? (Apologies to Edmund Burke)

Comment author: Kazuo_Thow 02 February 2011 05:54:54PM 3 points [-]

I think this adaptation is much more precise than the original.

Comment author: Matt_Simpson 04 February 2011 06:56:10PM 3 points [-]

Not when apathy and insanity are correlated. See, e.g., The Myth of the Rational Voter