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DanArmak comments on Are we failing the ideological Turing test in the case of ISIS? (a crazy ideas thread) - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: DanArmak 09 January 2016 09:21:59PM 2 points [-]

Surely Mao didn't intend that outcome, and would have tried to avoid it if he had foreseen it.

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Comment author: DanArmak 10 January 2016 09:36:15AM 2 points [-]

Or is his failure to foresee the outcome merely evidence he was a bad planner? Did his ideology say anything he tried would succeed as long as his goals were correct? After he achieved a bad outcome, did he therefore modify his ideology to account for it?

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