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Vaniver comments on Open Thread, October 1-15, 2012 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Vaniver 02 October 2012 04:08:13AM 1 point [-]

That's a very long winded way of objecting to Yvain's model of the American economy as largely zero-sum games (eg. poker).

Agreed. That is the heart of my objection, but if I simply say "the economy is not zero-sum!" then those that agree with me will agree with me and those that disagree with me might not see why. I do wish that I had thought to use the reversal test as my example.