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4 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 02 July 2008 07:57AM

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Comment author: Lara_Foster 02 July 2008 04:58:51PM 0 points [-]

Note- Lara Foster was previously commentator Laura ABJ-

Eliezer: Here’s one way to interpret that quote, though I *doubt* it’s what you had in mind when you asked who ‘understands’ it:

Young people who have not yet accomplished anything have no reputation to defend and nothing to lose by throwing themselves full-force at a problem, flaunting established political hierarchies, and actually thinking they have some hope of solving it or accomplishing something of value that had not already been done 10 million times over.

I find your musings on hubris interesting.