VoiceOfRa comments on Rationality Quotes Thread September 2015 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: VoiceOfRa 03 September 2015 03:58:55AM 5 points [-]

The free-market system has salient flaws and hidden benefits. All other systems have hidden flaws and salient benefits.

Nassim Taleb

Comment author: Manfred 04 September 2015 04:11:55AM 0 points [-]

Well, if everyone knew it had hidden flaws, I guess they wouldn't be hidden, eh?

Comment author: Luke_A_Somers 25 September 2015 06:49:40PM 1 point [-]

If everyone already knew everything I was about to say, there wouldn't be much point in saying it either.

Comment author: philh 02 October 2015 01:49:34PM 0 points [-]

Well, that depends. Does everyone know that everyone knows that someone has blue eyes?

Comment author: ChristianKl 12 September 2015 08:47:53AM 5 points [-]

Well, if everyone knew it had hidden flaws, I guess they wouldn't be hidden, eh?

No, that's not the case. I know with high certainity that the version of Firefox I use is vunerable to various 0-day attacks. At the same time I can't point to specific ones. Specific one's are hidden.

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