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Strangeattractor comments on Open thread, Aug. 17 - Aug. 23, 2015 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Strangeattractor 19 August 2015 11:13:01PM 2 points [-]

I think it is useful. And the usefulness may be hard to measure because it manifests in pitfalls that you didn't fall into, ignorant decisions that you didn't make, blights on your imagination that you didn't have, prejudices that you didn't express.

It's like that when people do preventative work of any kind. Their work is often not recognized or noticed.