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Comment author: JoshuaZ 22 February 2015 03:38:42AM 10 points [-]

For example, suppose you wake up in Neoreactionary Future World, and you long for the Enlightenment sort of world you remembered in the 21st Century. Well, find your place in the current hierarchy and wait a few centuries. The Enlightenment might come around for a second go.

We all know at this point that this is your favorite example and apparently what you hope will happen. We get the point. Whatever government there is if any in a few centuries I expect to be radically different from anything we've imagined. People might take your point more seriously if you didn't use it to harp on your own political agenda repeatedly.

Comment author: Luke_A_Somers 23 February 2015 01:15:43PM *  2 points [-]

In this one case I think it was okay. It was a very blank example - the roles could have been swapped or replaced with nearly anything else without any other changes - and moreover he was speculating that people would not like it and that it is reasonable to expect it to fail.

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