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David_Gerard comments on A Kick in the Rationals: What hurts you in your LessWrong Parts? - Less Wrong Discussion

24 Post author: sixes_and_sevens 25 April 2012 12:12PM

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Comment author: David_Gerard 27 April 2012 08:24:49AM *  0 points [-]

The TVTropes page (which I am not linking to) notes Idiocracy as an example of a plot where everyone in the society is an idiot and the premise works. If that's the actual point of the story, that's different to doing it just to give yourself a plot at all.