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Clarity comments on Rationality Quotes Thread January 2016 - Less Wrong
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That's a ridiculously pessimistic thing to say
I suspect you read this as "most (well-meaning) potential changes" while The_Lion means it as "most (random) potential changes".
Most random changes to highly organized structures would, indeed, be awful.
The road to hell was never in need of repair.
All the changes that people make are "well-meaning", even those being made by ISIS. A word that better makes the distinction is "intentional".
Not necessarily. I know that if I get really angry, I sometimes make (generally small) decisions out of a desire to hurt whatever I am angry at. I don't think that counts as "well-meaning".
Depends on your definition of "well" and that line of approach would lead us into the usual definitional morass :-/
And, technically speaking, there is also compulsive behaviour.
How would you feel about this?
Or about a definition of a (local) maximum that says that all other (adjacent) options are worse?
I don't have any particular feelings about since I don't see how you are relating it to the quotes. Could you please clarify?
I believe it's a concept and reckon it's a pretty good Wikipedia article...