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> Egypt and Israel were at peace the way the US and the Soviet Union were at peace
From what you've said [earlier](http://lesswrong.com/r/discussion/lw/7cm/how_likely_is_peter_thiels_investment_into/4qpa) you apparently believe that the USSR was a client state of the USA.
So I can only conclude t...(read more)
I will be there.
If it's OK for the religious to discriminate against people, it ought also to be OK for people to discriminate against the religious.
Surely they could very easily observe that people with dark skin typically have parents with dark skin.
A topical real-life example of this is the DDoS attacks that Anonymous are making against various companies that pursue/sue people for alleged illegal file sharing.
I make no comment on the morality of this, but it seems to be effective in practise, at least some of the time, for example it may le...(read more)
This seems to me a good strategy for SIAI people to persuade K-type people to join them.
> Bush did not kill 10 billion current people (at $1,000 per life) and he massively increased health-oriented foreign aid to Africa
Bush wasn't a candidate in the 2008 presidential election, so it itself it's irrelevant what he did or didn't do. (Of course, you could make the meta argument that a R...(read more)
> What's so wrong with an open-source program to help people become "Less Awkward"?
Learning new stuff often involves making mistakes until one gets it right. I imagine that if this community was created, many posts would be of the form "I did X recently and it went wrong; what could I have done be...(read more)
> Remember, the point of evolution is not to survive for as long as possible, it is to f**k as much as possible (for a male).
No, and it's not even to have as many offspring as possible. It's to have as many copies of his genes in future members of the species.
Consider to male proto-humans, Adam ...(read more)
Exactly. A person can only be high status by being higher-status than someone else; so one person's high status must lead to another person's low status. So status must be zero-sum.