undermind comments on Power and difficulty - Less Wrong

21 Post author: undermind 22 October 2014 05:22AM

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Comment author: hairyfigment 22 October 2014 07:40:37PM 3 points [-]

Sure, but - to paraphrase Aleister Crowley - you can kill almost anyone once.

The other factor you refer to comes from us, not any more inherent feature of reality, and society has limited ability to impose it.