Lumifer comments on Is Pragmatarianism (Tax Choice) Less Wrong? - Less Wrong

-16 Post author: Xerographica 12 February 2015 04:47AM

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Comment author: Lumifer 13 February 2015 03:44:25PM 4 points [-]

I think you should spend a little more time among the average, common, non-academic people, and learn how they think.

Cf. "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard." -- H. L. Mencken

Comment author: Xerographica 13 February 2015 08:15:26PM 1 point [-]

Pragmatarianism is the theory that democracy ignores the fact that talk is cheap.