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torlokyesterday at 11:41 PM2 repliesview on HN

We should just let people with overwhelming amounts of money research and fund new ways to trick people's lizard brains into giving them even more money.


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twoodfintoday at 12:01 AM

If you’re going to organize your society around the theory that humans don’t actually possess free will, you’re going to produce a fair number of outcomes that a classical liberal would find abhorrent.

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reploodatoday at 12:05 AM

People aren't lizards, however. You demonstrate that by engaging in the distinctly unlizardlike behavior of employing a false dichotomy to imply the opposite.