gwern comments on Money: The Unit of Caring - Less Wrong

95 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 31 March 2009 12:35PM

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Comment author: Ritalin 23 July 2013 07:12:24AM 1 point [-]

we can contrast the lengthy & famous passages in de Tocqueville's Democracy in America

Quote three.

Comment author: gwern 23 July 2013 09:08:36PM *  1 point [-]

The entirety of chapter V, "OF THE USE WHICH THE AMERICANS MAKE OF PUBLIC ASSOCIATIONS IN CIVIL LIFE" comes to mind, as do parts from chapter VI ("OF THE RELATION BETWEEN PUBLIC ASSOCIATIONS AND THE NEWSPAPERS") and chapter VII ("RELATION OF CIVIL TO POLITICAL ASSOCIATIONS"). de Tocqueville is far from a concise quotable author.