NancyLebovitz comments on Rationality Quotes October 2011 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 24 October 2011 05:20:25AM 1 point [-]

How can you tell what our descendents are going to think?

If Pinker's right, the world tends towards increasing kindness, but we're kinder to homosexuals and less kind to smokers than we were, so it's still something of a gamble.

Do you expect all the future generations to agree with each other?

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 24 October 2011 05:34:40AM 1 point [-]

How can you tell what our descendents are going to think?

One good place to start is to think about Paul Graham's essay What you can't say.