johnlawrenceaspden comments on How minimal is our intelligence? - Less Wrong

55 Post author: Douglas_Reay 25 November 2012 11:34PM

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Comment author: johnlawrenceaspden 22 November 2012 10:31:19PM 1 point [-]

We would, as they say, have as long as we liked to sort out those sorts of issues.

Comment author: Douglas_Reay 23 November 2012 09:38:33AM 0 points [-]

How does that differ from saying "Given unlimited time to fix all social problems, society will eventually become a paradise" or "The root problem with current society is that we have not yet had sufficient time to fix all the other problems with it"? Couldn't the same be said about any imperfect society? I don't see how it is praise for the state of our current society versus previous societies.