Lumifer comments on Rationality Quotes Thread January 2016 - Less Wrong
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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".
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.
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".