itaibn0 comments on Rationality Quotes November 2012 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: itaibn0 21 November 2012 02:57:58AM 2 points [-]

It's also worth noting that human "cultures" behave remarkably like...

What you're describing is the definition of "culture" (more precisely, a definition of "culture", and a good one). I'm not sure why you're giving the weaker qualification of "behave remarkably like" rather than "are".

Comment author: DaFranker 21 November 2012 02:51:05PM 2 points [-]

This particular wording was meant to convey the sense that "Whatever people generally define as 'culture' or as separate 'cultures', even if they use rigid aristotelian categories, it still behaves pretty much like this."