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wedrifid comments on Smart, (young), ambitious and clueless -- what to do to maximize goodness? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: wedrifid 16 July 2011 04:13:04PM *  1 point [-]

I took "harness the capitalist system and the dumb people's desires in such a way that they can achieve their own desires" as a paternalistic statement.

Nope, just Machiavellian. ;)

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