VoiceOfRa comments on Rationality Quotes Thread September 2015

VoiceOfRa 3 Sep 2015 3:58 UTC
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The free-market system has salient flaws and hidden benefits. All other systems have hidden flaws and salient benefits.

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- Manfred 4 Sep 2015 4:11 UTC
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  Well, if everyone knew it had hidden flaws, I guess they wouldn’t be hidden, eh?
  - ChristianKl 12 Sep 2015 8:47 UTC
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    Well, if everyone knew it had hidden flaws, I guess they wouldn’t be hidden, eh?
    
    No, that’s not the case. I know with high certainity that the version of Firefox I use is vunerable to various 0-day attacks. At the same time I can’t point to specific ones. Specific one’s are hidden.
  - Luke_A_Somers 25 Sep 2015 18:49 UTC
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    If everyone already knew everything I was about to say, there wouldn’t be much point in saying it either.
    - philh 2 Oct 2015 13:49 UTC
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      Well, that depends. Does everyone know that everyone knows that someone has blue eyes?