timtyler comments on David Deutsch on How To Think About The Future - Less Wrong

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Comment author: timtyler 15 April 2011 06:29:56PM *  0 points [-]

Possibly an example of the halo effect: the good guys are good, the progress is good, so the good guys will make faster progress than the bad guys.

This is surely a real effect. The government is usually stronger than the mafia. The army is stronger than the terrorists. The cops usually beat the robbers, etc.