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Baughn comments on A Parable of Elites and Takeoffs - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Baughn 02 July 2014 06:19:33PM *  2 points [-]

Absolutely.

Human minds are a lot more stable than they feel - a decision that feels "close; 60/40" would still fall on the 60% side >>60% of the time - but chaos will quickly bubble up through other channels.