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Emile comments on Open thread, 16-22 June 2014 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Emile 18 June 2014 03:38:10AM 3 points [-]

(Agreed).

More broadly, my point is that treating culture as a Sacred Value That Must Not Be Compromised risks leading to suboptimal decisions, and that in a lot of cases, compromising culture is pretty okay (especially if you can reinvent it). Unlike being outgunned and outnumbered and sitting on a ressource everybody wants, how one thinks about culture is something the hypothetical Chieftain can control.