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seer comments on Social prerequisites of rationality - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: seer 25 March 2015 01:17:20AM 8 points [-]

It is easy to be safe as a conformist who just obeys.

Not necessarily. That depends on whether the social rules contains good advice. For example, in the Soviet Union blindly obeying all the official commands may very well cause you to starve. Hence most people cheated the system any way they could get away with. While as you observed they wouldn't openly question the official doctrine, their actions tell a different story.

Comment author: [deleted] 25 March 2015 08:17:02AM 1 point [-]

Hm, this is a good point. Clearly felt needs clearly override that. I was thinking more amonst the lines of office red-tape rules conformism, religious etc.