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

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Comment author: cousin_it 02 October 2012 11:15:09AM *  7 points [-]

When a programmer writes more and better code, the world hums along more smoothly for it.

A lot of code is written to win arms races, not improve the world. Online ads, algorithmic trading, the defense industry...

Comment author: drethelin 02 October 2012 04:57:24PM 2 points [-]

Arms races are strong driver of world improvement.

Comment author: TraderJoe 09 October 2012 06:41:17AM *  0 points [-]

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