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MrMind comments on US default as a risk to mitigate - Less Wrong Discussion

2 Post author: bokov 15 October 2013 04:41PM

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Comment author: MrMind 17 October 2013 08:42:54AM 1 point [-]

Failing to adequately account for such likely reactions isn't an inevitability, it is a social skills failure and a fairly blatant one at that.

That's not what I was noticing: telling other people how they feel might surely be a social failure, but not pretending to know how they feel? That seems much harder, since we have evolved to base our social interactions on the ability to guess the emotions of the other members of the pack.