DanielLC comments on Building Weirdtopia - Less Wrong

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Comment author: DanielLC 23 July 2012 06:25:10PM 5 points [-]

The society lasts for several centuries before being taken over by a tiny cabal of people with Congenital Insensitivity to Pain Disorder.

Wouldn't they get electrocuted before their vote counts for enough to take over?

Comment author: Strange7 12 November 2013 11:01:42PM 2 points [-]

The advantage they have is the ability to make highly-weighted strategic votes on issues they're personally indifferent to, like a series of tedious nitpicking revisions to bureaucratic procedures, the cumulative effect of which creates some critical loophole.