Eugine_Nier comments on Modest Superintelligences - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Eugine_Nier 24 March 2012 07:35:37PM 3 points [-]

As far as revolutions in Catholic countries, the Catholics should have more violently put down all threats to politico-religious authority. For that they can be blamed. Even so, it was a sin of omission, and there's little they could have done after the Reformation. The plague of chaos had already begun to spread.

And yet Protestant countries don't seem to have this problem despite being even less inclined to put rebellions down violently.

Comment author: Will_Newsome 24 March 2012 08:28:08PM 0 points [-]

They're also pretty communist and becoming moreso... and they tend to produce a lot of uFAI researchers. ...Political history is hard, let's go shopping.

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 25 March 2012 11:55:29PM 3 points [-]

Political history is hard, let's go shopping.

Here is a good blog post on the history of the relationship between the church and politics.