NancyLebovitz comments on Open Thread, March 1-15, 2012 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 05 March 2012 07:25:55PM 1 point [-]

See also Tthe Great Leap Forward.

I'd say they count-- if a system doesn't allow for quickly changing (or better, preventing) policies which cause death on a grand scale, there's something wrong with the system.

Comment author: TimS 05 March 2012 07:27:11PM *  3 points [-]

Something very wrong - yes.

Mass murder - ??

Edit to add: On reflection, the Great Leap Forward is a lot more like Stalin and the Kulaks than the unedited version of this comment might suggest.