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gwern comments on February 2013 Media Thread - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: gwern 15 February 2013 03:03:43AM 1 point [-]

Legal Systems was extremely derivative (I knew pretty much everything Friedman was writing about) and failed, I thought, to derive the insightful comparisons and contrasts I expected of Friedman.

Comment author: Jayson_Virissimo 15 February 2013 03:52:34AM 0 points [-]

Very disappointing. I have been looking forward to this book since he mentioned he might write it (years ago). Thanks.

Comment author: gwern 15 February 2013 04:37:18AM 0 points [-]

Well, you can always read it yourself, it's online. Unless you know as much as I do about Saga Iceland law and American Amish/Mennonite communities etc, you probably would get more out of it.