savageorange comments on Mind Hacks - Less Wrong

9 Post author: RyanCarey 03 February 2014 07:32PM

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Comment author: savageorange 04 February 2014 02:38:51AM *  4 points [-]

As a programmer, "Hack" has the connotation of a clever exploit of existing mechanics. It also has the connotation you specify, but I'd argue that the systematically flawed nature of humans requires us to employ such hacks (accepting that they are not ideal, but also that anything we replace them with is also likely to be a hack)