Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on The Importance of Saying "Oops" - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 22 September 2007 05:55:03PM 3 points [-]

BillK, the external consequences of that are the same whether you were just teleported into the situation or got into it yourself. Though I agree that the internal consequences may be different, if you truly did, in the past, give your word.

Krishna, of course the Enron collapse was complicated, but - at least according to the book I read - they were drinking their own Kool-Aid.