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Lumifer comments on Calibrating your probability estimates of world events: Russia vs Ukraine, 6 months later. - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Lumifer 30 August 2014 01:15:18AM *  3 points [-]

Lots of leftwing intellectuals would love to see the U.S. empire collapse.

I don't think their views on the subject are terribly coherent. The calls to stop being the world's policeman are intertwined with calls to intervene for "appropriate" humanitarian causes. Hard isolationism is a rarity nowadays, I think.