austhinker comments on Rationality Quotes: March 2011 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: austhinker 14 March 2011 01:32:58PM *  0 points [-]

Who are you quoting?

I seem to recall having read/heard this before.

Mind you, it depends on the reliability of it working. If something has a (real) 90% chance of making the problem twice as bad, but just happens to fix it, then it's still stupid.