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RobbBB comments on Politics is hard mode - Less Wrong Discussion

27 Post author: RobbBB 21 July 2014 10:14PM

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Comment author: drethelin 22 July 2014 08:13:09AM 8 points [-]

Even if you ignore the tribalism problem, politics is still a giant black hole for cognition. 90% of people gain nothing more than entertainment from thinking or talking about it. It's a mind killer in terms of opportunity costs.

Comment author: RobbBB 22 July 2014 08:44:57AM 4 points [-]

I never said politics wasn't the mind-killer.