Manfred comments on To like each other, sing and dance in synchrony - Less Wrong

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Comment author: JenniferRM 23 April 2012 09:23:33PM 11 points [-]

To allow people to log in to your server and make helpful changes without hassle, change all the passwords to "password": this is technically true, but applied in the wrong context it could lead to various problems. The hard part is figuring out which contexts have this safety property, and which don't, especially keeping in mind that contexts change over time.

Comment author: Manfred 24 April 2012 09:11:08AM 0 points [-]

The hard part is figuring out which contexts have this safety property, and which don't

Hm. And yet, we're not so great at the other stuff either. I think it's likely that individuals sorting whether it's a net benefit to do group activities isn't the hard part at all, for typical LW members at least.