Creutzer comments on Sidekick Matchmaking - How to tackle the problem? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: OrphanWilde 27 October 2015 02:02:06PM 0 points [-]

American culture has a presupposition that every problem has a solution - that you can win.

Yep... although there's an implicit "Other cultures don't think that identifying a problem implies a requirement to try to correct it" there, which I'm not sure I believe?

Comment author: Creutzer 27 October 2015 07:10:36PM 1 point [-]

If by implicit you mean implied by me, that wasn't intended. But I think other cultures do, to varying degrees, people more towards thinking that a problem is either unsolvable or that trying to solve it isn't worth the bother. I always feel like "Sometimes, when you're screwed enough, you're screwed" counts as a radical realisation in contemporary America.