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Incorrect comments on "Epiphany addiction" - Less Wrong Discussion

52 Post author: cousin_it 03 August 2012 05:52PM

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Comment author: Incorrect 04 August 2012 03:46:27PM 3 points [-]

Epiphanies are not necessarily useless or wrong, but cannot effect anything unless they are part of a system created already in motion. You can no more apply an epiphany to an unfocused, inactive human than you can apply it to a rock.