Lumifer comments on Human Evil and Muddled Thinking - Less Wrong

40 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 13 September 2007 11:43PM

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Comment author: soreff 05 August 2015 04:04:47AM 0 points [-]

If the only thing in favour of an idea is how wonderful the world would be if everyone followed it, it's a bad idea.

Almost entirely agreed. The one class of exceptions are cases where a single standard avoids some severe problem with a mix. "Elbonia will switch from driving on the left to driving on the right. The change will be made gradually."

Comment author: Lumifer 05 August 2015 04:25:55AM *  1 point [-]

a single standard avoids some severe problem with a mix

In a bit more general case, you would like to standardise things with a huge network effect. Like TCP/IP, for example.