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Re:Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality finished today by eru on Monday March 16, 2015 @10:02AM (#9211437)
Indeed. Schelling constantly brings up the applications to child rearing.

I read his later books, too. They are good, but not as great.

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Re:Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality finished today by davidgerard on Monday March 16, 2015 @10:11AM (#9211486)
Dude helped save us all from being flash-fried, I'll give him some slack ;-)
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Re:Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality finished today by eru on Tuesday March 17, 2015 @12:11AM (#9216241)
Some people argue mutual assured destruction brought us closer to the abyss than anything. (See Dr Strangelove.)

Schelling wrote well, I am not sure about his actual effect on policy. There were other hawks, like von Neumann, another geeks' hero.

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Re:Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality finished today by davidgerard on Tuesday March 17, 2015 @04:47AM (#9216854)
Dr Strangelove is actually a treatise on why Smart Contracts are a terrible idea nobody should want - the plot is literally an unstoppable Smart Contract gone wrong.
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