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thomblake comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 6 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: thomblake 17 January 2011 07:57:09PM 4 points [-]

he no longer believes in democracy. If he becomes God, he will not necessarily be a CEV, he'll do what he personally believes to be right.

Democracy isn't CEV. People will vote for all sorts of things when they're not as good or smart as they could be.