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Qiaochu_Yuan comments on How big of an impact would cleaner political debates have on society? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Qiaochu_Yuan 06 February 2014 01:29:51AM *  15 points [-]

I think this would both be hard and not have a large impact on things. If it becomes difficult for candidates to do the usual social ape things in political debates then they'll do the usual social ape things somewhere else, e.g. elsewhere on TV or online.