Re: Survey How new millennium is failing to live up to expectations

From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Tue Dec 26 2000 - 22:51:02 MST

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Samantha Atkins wrote:
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> "Michael S. Lorrey" wrote:
> >
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> > So long as the vast majority of people tend to be rational, self
> > centered, and stubbornly independent most of the time, I think
> > impossible is a good way to describe things.
>
> Don't look now but the vast majority of people are NOT like this.

The "vast majority" doesn't make decisions. Politicians, factions, and
bureaucracies make decisions.

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