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Jiro comments on If you can see the box, you can open the box - Less Wrong Discussion

49 Post author: ThePrussian 26 February 2015 10:36AM

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Comment author: Jiro 28 February 2015 05:29:45AM 6 points [-]

The simpler explanation is that if they do hate freedom, their hatred is going to be aimed at the most prominent example of it. The US is a lot more prominent in international politics than Japan.

Note that this is still different from signalling--they do hate freedom, outside considerations just affect which particular target they pick of the free ones.