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Open Thread, June 2-15, 2013 — LessWrong

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Open Thread, June 2-15, 2013

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ChristianKl13y00

Still, I'm happy to say that our schedule is an aggregate of public opinion.

Would you disagree?

By that definition the political decisions in most non-democratic states are also driven by public opinion.

TheOtherDave13y20

Maybe; I'm not sure.

I mean, these terms are fuzzy, but to continue with my analogy... consider the following (tiny subset of all) possible processes:

[A] "the guy leading the meeting proposed a schedule, and that's the schedule we're using; there was no opportunity to object nor any expectation of such an opportunity."
[B] "the guy leading the meeting proposed a schedule, some people objected, he changed some stuff, nobody objected, and that's the schedule we're using; most people paid no attention and don't really care"

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