rwallace comments on The mind-killer - Less Wrong

23 Post author: ciphergoth 02 May 2009 04:49PM

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Comment author: rwallace 03 May 2009 12:51:14AM 2 points [-]

To what Matt said, I will add: actions taken with the intent of preventing harmful event X, often have no effect on X but greatly contribute to equally harmful event Y.