Lumifer comments on Rational discussion of politics - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Lumifer 27 April 2015 05:44:52PM 1 point [-]

They are effective or ineffective ways of accomplishing certain goal

I'll generalize it even further: there are more and less optimal ways of accomplishing a certain goal and what is "optimal" depends on what are you optimizing for and the weights you assign to different values that you trade off against each other.