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thomblake comments on Sam Harris' surprisingly modest proposal - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: thomblake 07 October 2010 05:56:57PM 0 points [-]

When people form an orderly line at the grocery store, nobody notices how neatly our goals and behavior have aligned.

Lots of people notice this! A few years ago, there was a popular book ("Watching the English") one of whose major topics was how much English people like to queue, and it's widely known that the same does not hold for many sorts of continental Europeans.