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Douglas_Knight comments on Is altruistic deception really necessary? Social activism and the free market - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Douglas_Knight 26 February 2016 08:06:15AM *  1 point [-]

I'm not sure it's relevant to this post, but your description of your old post seems to be opposite to what it actually says. Here you say that practical directions come first and are deceitfully simplified to generate energy. There you said that naive energy creation comes first and later people harness and direct it. The difference seems important to me because in this post the person is trying to steer society, while in the previous post it seemed to me that the practical second person was just trying to harness the energy to personal benefit and maybe not even steering society at all where the naive first person wanted to go.

Added: Well, I guess the phrasing "Every Paul needs a Jesus" puts Paul logically first, matching this post. But the point about trying to steer society still seems an important difference.