tut comments on Rationality Quotes December 2011 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: iwdw 07 December 2011 06:32:57PM *  -1 points [-]

… every culture in history, in every time and every place, has operated from the assumption that it had it 95% correct and that the other 5% would arrive in five years’ time! All were wrong! All were wrong, and we gaze back at their naivety with a faint sense of our own superiority.

-- Terence McKenna, Culture and Ideology are Not Your Friends

Comment author: tut 12 December 2011 05:05:41PM 15 points [-]

… every culture in history, in every time and every place ...

We should implement a filter that changes the above phrase to "The USA in the 1950s". Because then the statements that include the phrase would generally become true.

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 13 December 2011 06:18:10AM 3 points [-]

I think you're being a little to harsh on the OC. You can at least use the phrase "Western Culture in the 20th century". (;

Comment author: wedrifid 13 December 2011 09:36:25AM 1 point [-]

You can delete the duplicate comments now that they are retracted.

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