Gray comments on How and Why to Granularize - Less Wrong

62 Post author: lukeprog 17 May 2011 03:16PM

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Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 17 May 2011 05:06:59PM *  6 points [-]

Edit: Luke fixed the problem with the post.

Bad specific examples. The world is unfair and poor, and not everything is actually possible for everyone, even though a lot more is possible than people may expect. People shouldn't need to deceive themselves about the extent of what's possible, to do what is possible. So agree in spirit, but not literally. Otherwise, a great post.

Comment author: Gray 18 May 2011 12:04:40AM 3 points [-]

The world is unfair and poor, and not everything is actually possible for everyone, even though a lot more is possible than people may expect. People shouldn't need to deceive themselves about the extent of what's possible, to do what is possible.

Upvoted for this. In fact, someone should right a post about this, to stamp out some of the almost naive optimism found elsewhere on the site.