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David_Gerard comments on On Leverage Research's plan for an optimal world - Less Wrong Discussion

25 Post author: Mitchell_Porter 10 January 2012 09:49AM

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Comment author: David_Gerard 10 January 2012 05:30:26PM *  12 points [-]

People here have pretty much stopped replying to objections with "you should read the Sequences". This suggests that pointing out socially clunky behaviour is worth at least trying, for all the outcries of the stung.

Comment author: TheOtherDave 10 January 2012 05:37:10PM 6 points [-]

Mm. That's fair.

Updated in favor of communication being a marginally less hopeless way of improving the world than I'd previously believed.