DSimon comments on The Robbers Cave Experiment - Less Wrong

40 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 10 December 2007 06:18AM

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Comment author: ericn 26 December 2010 09:11:52AM 3 points [-]

My friend had the idea that we need a race of bunnies from another planet to infest Earth. They would be a nuisance, nothing more. They would breed and eat crops. But they would be enough trouble that we would have to work together to stop them.

Comment author: DSimon 20 November 2011 05:09:09AM 11 points [-]

You ever heard the phrase "X is like violence; if it's not solving your problems, it's because you're not using enough of it."? This is the very first time I've heard somebody propose "problems" as the value of X.