Eugine_Nier comments on George Orwell's Prelude on Politics Is The Mind Killer - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Eugine_Nier 30 March 2012 06:30:29AM *  2 points [-]

Out of the hundreds of examples that one might choose, take this question: Which of the three great allies, the U.S.S.R., Britain and the USA, has contributed most to the defeat of Germany?

I'm not convinced that question is even well defined. What does "contributed most" mean when mapped onto causality graphs?