Epictetus comments on Rationality Quotes Thread May 2015 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Epictetus 11 May 2015 04:52:50AM 2 points [-]

The institutionizing on a large scale of any natural combination of need and motive always tends to run into technicality and to develop a tyrannical Machine with unforeseen powers of exclusion and corruption.

-- William James, The Ph.D. Octopus

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