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52 Post author: BrienneYudkowsky 11 May 2014 07:38PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 09 May 2014 06:33:37AM 3 points [-]

This Vicar-of-Bray style behaviour will lead to your making highly inconsistent statements in the limit.

Will it?

Consider the regime of the official idea. Under certain regime structures, its direction of development is as obvious as its current state, and its current state is obvious. That is, there's one group that you consistently need something from, and the only inconsistencies arise from its idea-drift over time -- which can be predicted with a good deal of accuracy.

Comment author: TheAncientGeek 09 May 2014 12:38:00PM 0 points [-]

Where is this regime ....?

Comment author: [deleted] 14 May 2014 06:15:14PM 2 points [-]

It's a type, a pattern. I don't mean to single out any particular regime. I suspect there are instances of this type, but I'll leave that as an exercise for the reader.

Comment author: TheAncientGeek 14 May 2014 06:18:02PM 0 points [-]

I suspect that there aren't instances, hence my question.