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Sarunas comments on Rationality Quotes Thread August 2015 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Vaniver 13 August 2015 11:08:10PM *  23 points [-]

can we have a moratorium on the suggestion that, in order to fix the system, “people have to get more involved”? This is not a solution, it is a restatement of the problem. (Saying that a problem requires massive, broad-based, spontaneous, decentralized collective action in order to be resolved is equivalent to saying that it cannot be resolved. We need to think institutionally about social problems.)

--Joseph Heath

Comment author: Sarunas 15 August 2015 12:47:33PM 2 points [-]

Similarly, I often remind myself that, as a general rule, I should avoid using third person imperative mood in my thinking and speech.