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NancyLebovitz comments on Open thread, Oct. 6 - Oct. 12, 2014 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 06 October 2014 03:43:36PM 7 points [-]

Leadership for limited time periods.

Comment author: [deleted] 07 October 2014 11:43:06AM 5 points [-]

They already had it back in at least ancient Greece.

Comment author: TrE 07 October 2014 05:54:07AM 5 points [-]

Excluding the concept of "leadership until you get killed".

Comment author: Azathoth123 07 October 2014 02:34:03AM 1 point [-]

Conversely, they also wouldn't be able to understand the modern totalitarian state.