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eli_sennesh comments on Politics: an undervalued opportunity to change the world? - Less Wrong Discussion

1 Post author: wubbles 14 August 2015 03:45AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 16 August 2015 11:08:42PM 2 points [-]

With the death problem, we can characterize the nature of the problem, list out subproblems, list out causal contributors, and attack them one by one.

With "how to organize society", people disagree on the criterion for forming a component of the problem. Conflicting interests are the basic building-block of politics.