lessdazed comments on Science Doesn't Trust Your Rationality - Less Wrong

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Comment author: lessdazed 04 September 2011 01:00:38PM 1 point [-]

to win, you have to be twice as bad as the bad guys.

Granted being bad can be useful, being bad can also be useless or counterproductive. As it often is the latter two, the principle doesn't hold.