PhilGoetz comments on Great Books of Failure - Less Wrong

26 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 19 April 2009 12:59AM

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Comment author: PhilGoetz 20 April 2009 01:31:39AM 4 points [-]

Epic amounts of stupidity everywhere - it might have been the greatest parade of multisided folly in all human history.

It was an epic event. Did it have any higher a stupidity quotient than anything else at the time?

Comment author: orthonormal 21 April 2009 01:02:10AM 4 points [-]

I suspect yes, given the actors and the stakes; but at any rate it may be one of the best-chronicled displays of multisided folly in human history.