Emile comments on Open thread, August 26 - September 1, 2013 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Emile 27 August 2013 07:37:00PM 2 points [-]

Depends on whether that culture was going to disappear anyway (quite a few cultures seem doomed today), and how valuable and unique it is. It's sad that we lost a lot of information about the ancient greeks, but information about say the various central asian seems less regretted.