Multiheaded comments on LW Women- Minimizing the Inferential Distance - Less Wrong

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Comment author: [deleted] 28 November 2012 09:36:40AM 4 points [-]

I would say having a Baron is more civilized than having a popularity contest. I bet the latter is how things around the stone age camp-fire where worked out.

Comment author: Multiheaded 28 November 2012 09:43:09AM 1 point [-]

It is near-impossible to compare the space of all possible human "barons" with the space of all possible human "popularity contests" and decide which one is more "civilized" across multiple criteria.

Comment author: CharlieSheen 28 November 2012 09:51:52AM *  3 points [-]

Apply this argument to the politics of suffering Konkvistador talked about.